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Gr 5 Up—With a mesmerizing description of the suffering endured by bubonic plague victims, followed by several fascinatingly gruesome photographs depicting visible signs of the disease, Jarrow hooks readers from the start. This final installment of the author's "Deadly Disease" trilogy is as compelling as the first two titles, Red Madness: How a Medical Mystery Changed What We Eat (2014) and Fatal Fever: Tracking Down Typhoid Mary (2015, both Boyds Mills). Before describing the chaos the plague wrought on American shores, Jarrow recounts major plague outbreaks throughout history as w...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

In her third book in this trilogy (<i>Red Madness</i>; <i>Fatal Fever</i>), Jarrow focuses on the nineteenth century, when the bubonic plague r...Log In or Sign Up to Read More