01464nam a22003017a 4500 5420 FISKH 20241219104955.0 241204b cb ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9780439693899 FISKH eng FISKH FISKH RA644.Y4 614.541097481109033 Murphy, Jim An American plague : The true and terrifying story of the yellow fever epidemic of 1793 / by Jim Murphy First Scholastic paperback printing, October 2006 New York : Scholastic ; 2003. 165 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm . Z It's 1793, and there's an invisible killer roaming the streets of Philadelphia. The city's residents are fleeing in fear. This killer has a name--yellow fever--but everything else about it is a mystery. Its cause is unknown and there is no cure. This powerful dramatic account by award-winning author Jim Murphy traces the devastating course of the epidemic. An American Plague offers a fascinating glimpse into the conditions in American cities at the time of our nation's birth while drawing thought-provoking parallels to modern-day epidemics. 1130 Lexile Z Raz-Plus disease Non-fiction Philadelphia Non-fiction Watts, Trish Parcell Book designer ddc BK 0 5420 5420 0 0 ddc 0 0 NFIC 001 001 SNS 2024-12-04 0 MUR 614.541097481109033 RA644.Y4 FISSE00585 2024-12-04 14:56:37 1 2024-12-04 BK 0 0 ddc 0 0 NFIC 001 001 SNS 2024-12-04 0 MUR 614.541097481109033 RA644.Y4 FISSE00584 2024-12-19 10:49:42 2 2024-12-04 BK