Abigail Burgess Grant, lighthouse keeper at Matinicus Rock, Maine. This! This is who you were meant to be, Cleo Berry. Curled up on the settee, I read the book from first page to last, hoping inspiration would strike and put an end to my misery. My sad, sorry, unambitious self.įamous American Women: Vignettes from the Past and Present.
And on my family’s last evening in the city, my attention was fixed not on gratitude, certainly, but on myself.
But the distance between hindsight and foresight is as vast as the Pacific. Thank you for watching over me, when my own mother could not. Or held on a little tighter to Lucy and said, Thank you.
Thrown my arms around my brother, perhaps, and said, I love you, Jack. In the coming weeks, I would wish that I had done things differently. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. Riveting and well-researched, A Death-Struck Year is based on the real-life pandemic considered the most devastating in recorded world history, and leaves readers asking: what would I do for a neighbor? At what risk to myself? And as the bodies pile up, Cleo can't help but wonder: when will her own luck run out? Strangers like Edmund, a handsome medical student. In the grueling days that follow her headstrong decision, she risks everything for near-strangers. Seventeen-year-old Cleo is told to stay put in her quarantined boarding school, but when the Red Cross pleads for volunteers, she cannot ignore the call for help. The entire city is thrust into survival mode-and into a panic. Schools, churches, and theaters are shut down. Then the flu moves into the Pacific Northwest. The Spanish influenza is devastating the East Coast-but Cleo Berry knows it is a world away from the safety of her home in Portland, Oregon. In the grip of the deadly 1918 flu pandemic, not even the strong survive. VOYA's Top Shelf Fiction for Middle School Readers 2014Ī 2014 'Indies Introduce New Voices' Selection
A Georgia Peach Book Award Finalist 2015-2016Ī 2014 ABC Best Books for Children Selection
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