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Fatal Fever : Tracking Down Typhoid Mary

Author: Jarrow, Gail

Follett Number: 2191DA4
Audience: Middle School
Publisher: Calkins Creek, an imprint of Highlights, 2021
Format: 184 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm
ISBN-13: 978-1-63592-515-9
ISBN-10: 1-63592-515-0
Dewey: 614
Classifications: Nonfiction

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Subjects:
Communicable Diseases History
Typhoid Fever History
Typhoid Mary, 1869-1938
"Bonus! New chapter on the COVID-19 pandemic"--Front cover. ;Includes bibliographical references and index. Provides an overview of the search for Mary Mallon, also known as Typhoid Mary, who is thought to have caused the spread of typhoid fever, a disease spread by bacteria in food and water, in New York in 1909.

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"The [typhoid fever] germs do not fly through the air; they are transmitted by the hands." Praise for Fatal Fever. Eureka! Gold Award-California Reading Association, Excellence in Nonfiction Award Nominee-YALSA-ALA, Blue Ribbons List for Nonfiction-Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, Cooperative Children's Book Center Choice, Best Children's Books of the Year, Outstanding Merit-Bank Street College of Education, Nonfiction Honor List- VOYA Best Science Books-International Literacy Association, Four starred reviews: Booklist, Kirkus Reviews, Publishers Weekly, School Library Journal Book jacket.

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  • Booklist starred (February 15, 2015 (Vol. 111, No. 12)) (205 words; 1,335 chars)
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