Fever Year

Author : Don Brown
Publisher : HMH Books For Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 0544837401
Total Pages : 101 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fever Year written by Don Brown and published by HMH Books For Young Readers. This book was released on 2019-09-03 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Sibert honor-winning creator behind The Unwanted and Drowned City comes a graphic novel of one of the darkest episodes in American history: the Spanish Influenza epidemic of 1918. New Year's Day, 1918. America has declared war on Germany and is gathering troops to fight. But there's something coming that is deadlier than any war. When people begin to fall ill, most Americans don't suspect influenza. The flu is known to be dangerous to the very old, young, or frail. But the Spanish flu is exceptionally violent. Soon, thousands of people succumb. Then tens of thousands . . . hundreds of thousands and more. Graves can't be dug quickly enough. What made the influenza of 1918 so exceptionally deadly--and what can modern science help us understand about this tragic episode in history? With a journalist's discerning eye for facts and an artist's instinct for true emotion, Sibert Honor recipient Don Brown sets out to answer these questions and more in Fever Year.

Author : Don Brown
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0358168511
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fever Year written by Don Brown and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2019-09-03 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Sibert Honor–winning creator behind The Unwanted and Drowned City comes one of the darkest episodes in American history: the Spanish Influenza epidemic of 1918. This nonfiction graphic novel explores the causes, effects, and lessons learned from a major epidemic in our past, and is the perfect tool for engaging readers of all ages, especially teens and tweens learning from home. New Year’s Day, 1918. America has declared war on Germany and is gathering troops to fight. But there’s something coming that is deadlier than any war. When people begin to fall ill, most Americans don’t suspect influenza. The flu is known to be dangerous to the very old, young, or frail. But the Spanish flu is exceptionally violent. Soon, thousands of people succumb. Then tens of thousands . . . hundreds of thousands and more. Graves can’t be dug quickly enough. What made the influenza of 1918 so exceptionally deadly—and what can modern science help us understand about this tragic episode in history? With a journalist’s discerning eye for facts and an artist’s instinct for true emotion, Sibert Honor recipient Don Brown sets out to answer these questions and more in Fever Year.

Author : Barbara Hambly
Publisher : Bantam
ISBN 13 : 0307785289
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fever Season written by Barbara Hambly and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2011-01-05 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Benjamin January made his debut in bestselling author Barbara Hambly's A Free Man of Color, a haunting mélange of history and mystery. Now he returns in another novel of greed, madness, and murder amid the dark shadows and dazzling society of old New Orleans, named a Notable Book of the Year by the New York Times. The summer of 1833 has been one of brazen heat and brutal pestilence, as the city is stalked by Bronze John—the popular name for the deadly yellow fever epidemic that tests the healing skills of doctor and voodoo alike. Even as Benjamin January tends the dying at Charity Hospital during the steaming nights, he continues his work as a music teacher during the day. When he is asked to pass a message from a runaway slave to the servant of one of his students, January finds himself swept into a tempest of lies, greed, and murder that rivals the storms battering New Orleans. And to find the truth he must risk his freedom...and his very life.

Author : Sonia Shah
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1429981172
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Fever written by Sonia Shah and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2010-06-29 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, malaria has emerged as a cause célèbre for voguish philanthropists. Bill Gates, Bono, and Laura Bush are only a few of the personalities who have lent their names—and opened their pocketbooks—in hopes of curing the disease. Still, in a time when every emergent disease inspires waves of panic, why aren't we doing more to eradicate one of our oldest foes? And how does a parasitic disease that we've known how to prevent for more than a century still infect 500 million people every year, killing nearly 1 million of them? In The Fever, the journalist Sonia Shah sets out to answer these questions, delivering a timely, inquisitive chronicle of the illness and its influence on human lives. Through the centuries, she finds, we've invested our hopes in a panoply of drugs and technologies, and invariably those hopes have been dashed. From the settling of the New World to the construction of the Panama Canal, through wars and the advances of the Industrial Revolution, Shah tracks malaria's jagged ascent and the tragedies in its wake, revealing a parasite every bit as persistent as the insects that carry it. With distinguished prose and original reporting from Panama, Malawi, Cameroon, India, and elsewhere, The Fever captures the curiously fascinating, devastating history of this long-standing thorn in the side of humanity.

Author : Laurie Halse Anderson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1442443073
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fever 1793 written by Laurie Halse Anderson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-08-16 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's late summer 1793, and the streets of Philadelphia are abuzz with mosquitoes and rumors of fever. Down near the docks, many have taken ill, and the fatalities are mounting. Now they include Polly, the serving girl at the Cook Coffeehouse. But fourteen-year-old Mattie Cook doesn't get a moment to mourn the passing of her childhood playmate. New customers have overrun her family's coffee shop, located far from the mosquito-infested river, and Mattie's concerns of fever are all but overshadowed by dreams of growing her family's small business into a thriving enterprise. But when the fever begins to strike closer to home, Mattie's struggle to build a new life must give way to a new fight-the fight to stay alive.

Author : Brod Bagert
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101994207
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book School Fever written by Brod Bagert and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-07-03 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A kid's-eye view of school, crammed with enough funny to fill a big yellow bus! Snappy and hilarious in true Brod Bagert style, these goofy poems are united by their kid authenticity and quirky school themes. From a computer virus that one kid claims is sure to keep him homesick until summer vacation, to the librarian who tames "the savage beast" (a mouse run amok in the library), to a superhero recruited to scare off the school bully, this is most definitely not your typical poetry collection. Robert Neubecker's bright, dynamic artwork propels each poem into another stratosphere of funny. By the end, kids will have contracted a different strain of school fever altogether. "Kids will appreciate the humor and will see themselves in the high-energy narrator"—Booklist

Author : Samanta Schweblin
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0399184619
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fever Dream written by Samanta Schweblin and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-01-10 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A wonderful nightmare of a book: tender and frightening, disturbing but compassionate. Fever Dream is a triumph of Schweblin’s outlandish imagination.” –Juan Gabriel Vasquez, author of The Sound of Things Falling and Reputations A young woman named Amanda lies dying in a rural hospital clinic. A boy named David sits beside her. She’s not his mother. He's not her child. Together, they tell a haunting story of broken souls, toxins, and the power and desperation of family. Fever Dream is a nightmare come to life, a ghost story for the real world, a love story and a cautionary tale. One of the freshest new voices to come out of the Spanish language and translated into English for the first time, Samanta Schweblin creates an aura of strange psychological menace and otherworldly reality in this absorbing, unsettling, taut novel.

Author : Bill Cotter
Publisher : McSweeney's
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fever Chart written by Bill Cotter and published by McSweeney's. This book was released on 2009 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Having spent most of his life medicated, electroshocked, and institutionalized, Jerome Coe finds himself homeless on the coldest night of the century--and so, with nowhere else to go, he accepts a ride out of New England from an old love's ex-girlfriend. It doesn't quite work out, but he makes it to New Orleans, and a new life--complete with a bandaged hand, world-champion grilled-cheese sandwiches, and only the occasional psychotic break. Things get better, and then, of course, they get worse.

Author : World Health Organization
Publisher : World Health Organization
ISBN 13 : 9241548371
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pocket Book of Hospital Care for Children written by World Health Organization and published by World Health Organization. This book was released on 2013 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pocket Book is for use by doctors nurses and other health workers who are responsible for the care of young children at the first level referral hospitals. This second edition is based on evidence from several WHO updated and published clinical guidelines. It is for use in both inpatient and outpatient care in small hospitals with basic laboratory facilities and essential medicines. In some settings these guidelines can be used in any facilities where sick children are admitted for inpatient care. The Pocket Book is one of a series of documents and tools that support the Integrated Managem.

Author : Megan Abbott
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316231029
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Fever written by Megan Abbott and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2014-06-17 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The panic unleashed by a mysterious contagion threatens the bonds of family and community in a seemingly idyllic suburban community. The Nash family is close-knit. Tom is a popular teacher, father of two teens: Eli, a hockey star and girl magnet, and his sister Deenie, a diligent student. Their seeming stability, however, is thrown into chaos when Deenie's best friend is struck by a terrifying, unexplained seizure in class. Rumors of a hazardous outbreak spread through the family, school and community. As hysteria and contagion swell, a series of tightly held secrets emerges, threatening to unravel friendships, families and the town's fragile idea of security. A chilling story about guilt, family secrets and the lethal power of desire, THE FEVER affirms Megan Abbott's reputation as "one of the most exciting and original voices of her generation."* *Laura Lippman