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Fever 1793 by Anderson, Laurie Halse
Notes: In this novel, 16-year-old Mattie Cook lives through the Yellow Fever epidemic in Philadelphia, which killed 10 percent of the City’s population in three months.
Reading Level: Teen
ISBN: 0689838581
Pompeii, a Novel by Harris, Robert
Notes: In A.D. 79, as Mount Vesuvius begins to spew ash and residents of Pompeii try to flee, young engineer Marcus Aurelius Primus fights intrigue and disaster to save the woman he loves.
Reading Level: Adult
ISBN: 0679428895
The Andromeda Strain by Crichton, Michael
Notes: In this now classic science fiction tale, a space probe carrying a deadly pathogen falls to earth, and humans begin to literally drop dead.
Reading Level: Adult
ISBN: 0394415256
The Hot Zone by Preston, Richard
Notes: In this slightly fictionalized story, Preston chronicles an outbreak of the Ebola virus in an animal testing facility near Washington, D.C., and provides information and scenarios for other deadly threats.
Reading Level: Adult
ISBN: 0385479565
Flu: The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 by Kolata, Gina Bari
Notes: The gripping tale of the impact of the Influenza Pandemic of 1918, which affected one out of every four Americans.
Reading Level: Adult
ISBN: 0374157065
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 1999
Pages: 330
Callnumber: 614.578 K83f