The true and terrifying story of the yellow fever epidemic of 1793 Murphy, Jim creator Watts, Trish Parcell Book designer text cb New York Scholastic 2003 First Scholastic paperback printing, October 2006 monographic eng

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165 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm . 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. Z 1130 Lexile Z Raz-Plus by Jim Murphy disease Non-fiction Philadelphia Non-fiction RA644.Y4 614.541097481109033 9780439693899 FISKH 241204 20241219104955.0 5420 eng