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-- Fever, seventeen hundred ninety three2002, c2000., 5.0; 5-8, Aladdin Paperbacks Call No: Y AND Edition: 1st Aladdin Paperba Availability:0 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: In 1793 Philadelphia, sixteen-year-old Matilda Cook, separated from her sick mother, learns about perseverance and self-reliance when she is forced to cope with the horrors of a yellow fever epidemic.
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-- Killer flu of 1918[2019]., Ages 10-14, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Call No: J HIST 614.5 180973 Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "New Year's Day, 1918. America has declared war on Germany and is gathering troops to fight. But there's something coming that is deadlier than any war. When people begin to fall ill, most Americans don't suspect influenza. The flu is known to be dangerous to the very old, young, or frail. But the Spanish flu is exceptionally violent. Soon, thousands of people succumb. Then tens of thousands . . . hundreds of thousands and more. Graves can't be dug quickly enough. What made the influenza of 1918 so exceptionally deadly--and what can modern science help us understand about this tragic episode in history? With a journalist's discerning eye for facts and an artist's instinct for true emotion, Sibert Honor recipient Don Brown sets out to answer these questions and more in Fever Year."
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2013., ages 9+, Alfred A. Knopf Call No: G HOP Edition: First Edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Eel, an orphan, and his best friend Florrie must help Dr. John Snow prove that cholera is spread through water, and not poisonous air, when an epidemic sweeps across their London neighborhood in 1854.
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[2021]., Ages 8-12, Random House Call No: J HIST 614.4 9 Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: History smashers.Summary Note: "With a mix of sidebars, illustrations, photos, and graphic panels, this book uncovers the hidden truths about history's pandemics, from the Black Death to COVID-19"--