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A Death-Struck Year (2014)

by Makiia Lucier(Favorite Author)

3.92 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0544164504 (ISBN13: 9780544164505)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

HMH Books for Young Readers

review 1: This read as younger than I expected, and would be totally appropriate for even late elementary school children. For me, the seams on her research showed a little, as I have read a couple of the books she used to prepare this book, and in several places I recalled the passages in the non-fiction work she was drawing on for particular plot points. That said, it was a charming novel set in Portland, OR, during the Spanish flu. It hit a lot of my sweet spots, and I did enjoy it.
review 2: For Cleo Berry, the people dying of the Spanish Influenza in cities like New York and Philadelphia are far away from Portland, Oregon. Then cases start being reported in the Pacific Northwest. Schools, churches, and theaters shut down. Seventeen-year-old Cleo is determined to ... moreride out the pandemic in her own home, rather than her boarding school dorms. When the Red Cross pleads for volunteers, she volunteers and finds herself caring about near-strangers. And as the bodies begin to pile up, Cleo can't help but wonder: when will her own luck run out? A fascinating view of the 1918 influenza pandemic and how individuals coped with this tragedy. less

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