Deadly
In the early nineteen-hundreds, sixteen-year-old Prudence Galewski leaves school to take a job assisting the head epidemiologist at New York's Department of Health and Sanitation, investigating the intriguing case of "Typhoid Mary," a seemingly healthy woman who is infecting others with typhoid fever.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 21
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 930
subjects: typhoid mary, typhoid fever, sex role [X], epidemiology, interpersonal relations, diaries [X], new york (n.y.) [X], epidemics, historical fiction, gender role, historical fiction