Help school-age youth better understand the challenges around their own, or their classmate’s, special health conditions. Visit your local library’s youth department for more ideas. 

• American Academy of Pediatrics (2010). Allergies & Asthma. American Academy of Pediatrics. 

Allergies 

• Glaser, Jason. (2007). Food allergies. Capstone Press.
• Gordon, Sharon. (2003). Children’s Press.
• Jorgensen, Katrina. (2017). Fearless Food: Allergy-Free Recipes for Kids. Capstone Young Readers
• Koster, Gloria & Cocca-Leffler, Maryann. (2006). The Peanut-Free Café. Whitman.
• McClure, Wendy (2009). The Princess and the Peanut Allergy. Albert Whitman & Company.
• Nassau, Elizabeth Sussman & Ott, Margot. (2001). The Peanut Butter Jam. Health Press.
• Nelson, Kirsten Rajczak. (2015). I’m Allergic to Bees. Gareth Stevens Publishing.
• Nelson, Maria. (2015). I’m Allergic to Peanuts. Gareth Stevens Publishing.
• Powell, Jillian. (2004). Aneil Has a Food Allergy. Anaphylaxis Campaign
• Royston, Angela (2010). Franklin Watts.
• Taylor-Butler, Christine (2008). Food Allergies. Children’s Press.
• Zan, Danessia. (2013). Apple Allergy. Xlibris Corportation.

 Asthma 

• Ballard, Carol (2011). What is an Asthma Attack? Heinemann Raintree.
• Bee, Peta. (2011). I Have Asthma. Gareth Stevens Pub.
• Berger, William E. (2008). Living with Asthma. Facts on File
• Golding, Theresa (2009). Abby’s Asthma and the Big Race. Albert Whitman & Company.
• Squire, Ann (2016). Children’s Press, an Imprint of Scholastic, Inc.
• Matthies, Janna & Lewis, Anthony. (2009). Peter, the Knight with Asthma. Albert Wittman & Co.
• McCormick, Shawn; Trevino, Ginny & Schmidt, Nathan. (2003). Zoey and the Zones: A Story for Children with Asthma.
• Moore-Mallinos, Jennifer & Curto, Rosa M. (2007). I Have Asthma.
• Gray, Shirley, W. (2003). Living with Asthma.