Fever Year: The Killer Flu of 1918

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.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Published: 09/03/2019
ISBN: 9780544837409
Pages: 96
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 10.20h x 6.80w x 0.60d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 07/01/2019
Kirkus Reviews 07/01/2019 pg. 155
Booklist 07/01/2019 pg. 47
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 09/01/2019
Horn Book Magazine 11/01/2019 pg. 106

Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 506214 / Fever Year: The Killer Flu of 1918
Reading Level: 6.7 / Interest Level: Middle Grade Plus / Point Value: 1