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Author
Lexile measure
660L
Language
English
Description
"When unlikeable Elsie dies in the influenza pandemic of 1918, she comes back to haunt Annie to make sure she'll be Annie's best--and only--friend soon"--
Against the ominous backdrop of the 1918 influenza epidemic, new girl Annie is claimed as best friend by Elsie, the tattletale, liar, and thief of the class. But Annie would rather spend time with the other girls, since Elsie is so mean. When Elsie dies of influenza, Annie thinks she's free of...
3) Shortcuts
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
235 pages : chiefly illustrated ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When most of the adults on space station Wilnick come down with the flu, Sanity and Tallulah are tasked with delivering turbopumps to another station, but when they take a shortcut, they accidentally end up on the other side of the blockade.
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books, an imprint of Capstone
Pub. Date
2020.
Lexile measure
530L
Physical Desc
102 pages : illustrations, map ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Daisy Meyer is angry and frustrated with her world: her German American town, New Ulm, is under surveillance, her father's newspaper was forced to shut down for criticizing the United States' entry into World War I, her beloved older sister Elsie's fiancé is deployed to France, and she deeply resents her stepmother--but worse is coming, because this is October 1918, and influenza is about to descend on her home and family, and it...
Author
Series
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Lexile measure
800L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
During the 1918 influenza outbreak, nine-year-old Rettie seeks ways to make Thanksgiving special for her siblings and ailing mother.
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Lexile measure
HL 800L
Physical Desc
387 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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 ghosts are real when her first love, killed in battle, returns.
7) Farm flu
Author
Pub. Date
2001
Lexile measure
AD 620L
Physical Desc
30 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
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.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2014]
Lexile measure
HL 600L
Physical Desc
282 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When the Spanish influenza epidemic reaches Portland, Oregon, in 1918, seventeen-year-old Cleo leaves behind the comfort of her boarding school to work for the Red Cross.
9) The Keening
Author
Publisher
Milkweed Editions
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (167 pages)
Language
English
Description
Born into a family with artistry in their fingers, Lyza laments that her only talent is carving letters into wood. That is until her life is turned upside down when her mother succumbs to the influenza pandemic of 1918, which is devastating their small coastal town in Maine. With her mother gone, Lyza must protect her eccentric father, who runs the risk of being committed, especially now that he claims he's waiting for the return of his dead wife....
10) Little ouch
Author
Publisher
Mascot Books
Pub. Date
[2020].
Physical Desc
1 volume : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
When it comes to getting her flu shot, Penelope is not amused. It makes her scared and nvervous and queasy and sick and sweaty! Will she be able to overcome her fear of the little ouch?
11) Rivka's presents
Author
Publisher
Random House Studio
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1918 New York City, little Jewish girl Rivka, who lives on the Lower East Side, trades chores with people in her neighborhood for lessons until she can finally attend school.
12) Blessing's bead
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
870L
Physical Desc
178 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1917, Aaluk leaves for Siberia while her sister Nutaaq remains in their Alaskan village and becomes one of the few survivors of an influenza epidemic, then in 1986, Nunaaq's great-granddaughter leaves her mother due to a different kind of sickness and returns to the village where they were born.
13) Palace beautiful
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Lexile measure
680L
Physical Desc
232 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
After her move in 1985 to Salt Lake City, thirteen-year-old Sadie finds a journal in a hidey-hole in the attic, and along with her sister and new friend she reads about the influenza epidemic of 1918.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
205 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In 1918, as the Great War rages in Europe, the Spanish influenza tears a brutal path across the United States, leaving devastation in its wake. Ordinary life is turned upside down as schools are closed, and all spheres of public life are shut down. Suddenly, eleven-year-old Lydia Pierce and her older brother, Daniel, find themselves orphans of the flu, and are taken by their grieving uncle to be raised in the Shaker community at Sabbathday Lake....