Helping Children with Life-Threatening Medical Issues explores the crisis of serious illnesses in children and the people and organizations that are working to eliminate the problem. This title also focuses on people who have been helped, the progress that has already been made, and the challenges still left to be met. The young reader analyzes the stories and develops his or her own opinion of what can be done to solve the childhood health crisis. The book has been developed to address many of the Common Core specific goals, higher level thinking skills, and progressive learning strategies from informational texts for middle grade and junior high level students.