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Tiny Stitches: The Life of Medical Pioneer Vivien Thomas

By Gwendolyn Hooks, Colin Bootman (Illustrator)
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$19.95
By Gwendolyn Hooks, Colin Bootman (Illustrator)
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NAACP Image Awards Winner - National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)

Recipient of the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work for Children, this is the life story of Vivien Thomas, a Black surgical technician who developed the first procedure used to perform open-heart surgery on children.

Vivien Thomas's greatest dream was to attend college to study medicine. But after the stock market crashed in 1929, Vivien lost all his savings. Then he heard about a job o...

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