Rebecca is a six and a half year-old girl who is out of luck and her parents are on the verge of divorce and she is always getting sick due to a weak immune system. One rainy day Rebecca's luck changes when she meets a magical microbe named Ernest, who becomes her best friend! Ernest is no regular germ--he is about the same height as Rebecca and he can talk. Can Rebecca keep her parents together with the help of her new friend? And can anyone really...

Life is not easy for 6 year old Rebecca. Rebecca's parents are at each others throats; her big sister is totally absorbed with her own problems, and her uncle is intent on Rebecca taking her medicine. It is a hard luck life. Complicating things further, her health is not so good and her parents keep her home all the time. Ernest, the bacterium who has become her best friend, hopes to reconcile her parents. But things get complicated when a new virus...

"In graphic novel format, follows Max Axiom as he explores the world of bacteria"--Provided by publisher.

"A graphic nonfiction volume that introduces the human body's immune response to infectious disease"--