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People of the Plague
Contributor(s): Anderson, T. Neill (Author)
ISBN: 1580895182     ISBN-13: 9781580895187
Publisher: Charlesbridge Publishing
OUR PRICE:   $16.10  
Product Type: Library Binding - Other Formats
Published: October 2014
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Young Adult Fiction | Historical - United States - 20th Century
- Young Adult Fiction | Health & Daily Living - Diseases, Illnesses & Injuries
Dewey: FIC
LCCN: 2013033038
Lexile Measure: 870
Series: Horrors of History
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6" W x 9.1" (1.10 lbs) 160 pages
Themes:
- Topical - Death/Dying
- Locality - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Geographic Orientation - Pennsylvania
- Chronological Period - 1900-1919
Accelerated Reader Info
Quiz #: 174330
Reading Level: 5.7   Interest Level: Middle Grades   Point Value: 5.0
 
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc.
Publisher Description:
Well-researched and rich with ghastly details, this third historical fiction novel in the Horrors of History series brings young readers into the Spanish Flu epidemic of 1918.

World War I is almost over. Thrilled that the Liberty Parade has won them a day off of school, Harriet and Harry run up and down Broad Street-where a boatload of Navy sailors from Boston have just brought the influenza to Philadelphia. Over the next two months, fully a quarter of the city will be stricken with the flu. Thousands will die. And the City of Brotherly Love will never be the same.

Actual and fictionalized victims and survivors, like heroic young Barium Epp and Philadelphia Department of Public Health and Charities director Dr. Wilmer Krusen, help weave together a gripping account of the flu that rocked the nation and the city that fought back in the early days of epidemiology and public health.