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Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
HL 800L
Language
English
Description
In San Diego in 1918, as deadly influenza and World War I take their toll, sixteen-year-old Mary Shelley Black watches desperate mourners flock to séances and spirit photographers for comfort and, despite her scientific leanings, must consider if ghostsare real when her first love, killed in battle, returns.
42) Outlawed
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"The Crucible meets True Grit in this riveting adventure story of a fugitive girl, a mysterious gang of robbers, and their dangerous mission to transform the Wild West. In the year of our Lord 1894, I became an outlaw. The day of her wedding, 17 year old Ada's life looks good; she loves her husband, and she loves working as an apprentice to her mother, a respected midwife. But after a year of marriage and no pregnancy, in a town where barren women...
Author
Language
English
Description
A novel set in 1918 Dublin offers a three-day look at a maternity ward during the height of the Great Flu pandemic.
In an Ireland doubly ravaged by war and disease, Nurse Julia Power works at an understaffed hospital in the city center, where expectant mothers who have fallen sick are quarantined into a separate ward to keep the plague at bay. Into Julia's regimented world step two outsiders, a woman doctor who is a rumored Rebel, and a teenage girl,...
Author
Series
Southwestern studies volume monograph no. 72
Publisher
Texas Western Press
Pub. Date
[1984]
Language
English
48) Flu birds
Publisher
First Look Studios
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
An insidious and deadly virus has infected a species of giant birds, turning them into vicious predators. As the birds descend on an entire town, killing its inhabitants one by one, six unsuspecting teens must fight for their lives and retreat to a military bunker on the outskirts of town. It is the only safe haven that will keep the birds from killing them--or will it?
52) Farm flu
Author
Publisher
Albert Whitman
Pub. Date
2000.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 620L
Language
English
Description
When the farm animals seem to catch the flu one after another, a young boy does his best to take care of them.
53) Station eleven
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
A post-apocalyptic saga spanning multiple timelines, this limited drama series tells the stories of survivors of the devastating flu as they attempt to rebuild and reimagine the world anew while holding on to the best of what's been lost.
54) Ah-choo!
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
A sneeze spreads from a farmer to his wife to various animals on the farm until they are all in bed with the flu.
55) Pandemic
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"New York Times bestselling author Robin Cook takes on the cutting-edge world of gene modification in this pulse-pounding new medical thriller. When an unidentified, seemingly healthy young woman collapses suddenly on the New York City subway and dies upon reaching the hospital, her case is an eerie reminder for veteran medical examiner Jack Stapleton of the 1918 flu pandemic. Fearful of a repeat on the one hundredth anniversary of the nightmarish...
56) The keening
Author
Publisher
Milkweed Editions
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Born into an artistic and eccentric family, 14 year old Lyza laments that her only talent is carving letters into wood. Until the devastating loss of her mother to influenza during the pandemic of 1918, that is. The illness has settled on their small coastal town in Maine, and the funeral marches pass Lyza's house almost daily. When her unconventional father begins to prepare for the return of his dead wife, Lyza is the only one to protect him...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"At the height of WWI, history's most lethal influenza virus erupted in an army camp in Kansas, moved east with American troops, then exploded, killing as many as 100 million people worldwide. It killed more people in twenty-four months than AIDS killed in twenty-four years, more in a year than the Black Death killed in a century. But this was not the Middle Ages, and 1918 marked the first collision of science and epidemic disease. Revised to reflect...
58) The empty mirror
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Nick, whose parents died in the 1918 flu epidemic, must find out why his mirror-image is causing mischief around their New England town and making sure Nick gets the blame.
59) Darkest hour
Author
Series
Heartland volume 13
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
660L
Language
English
Description
The flu has overrun the horses at Heartland, and despite Amy and Ty's efforts to keep the unaffected horses out of risk, the illness keeps spreading, and causes a rift in friendships.
Author
Series
Baby-sitters little sister volume 24
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[1992]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
560L
Language
English