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. Includes a historical note by the author.
year: 2011, 2012
call number/section: 1000, 6
subjects: typhoid mary, d. 1938, fiction, typhoid fever, fiction, sex role, epidemiology, interpersonal relations, diaries, new york (n.y.), history, fiction, 1898-1951, -1938, epidemics, historical fiction, gender role, historical fiction
Editions
Chibbaro, Julie
Atheneum Books for Young Readers (2011)
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. Includes a historical note by the author.
Schools: 18
Chibbaro, Julie
Atheneum (2012)
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. Includes a historical note by the author.
Schools: 1
Chibbaro, Julie
Sixteen-year-old Prudence Galewski takes a job in the early 1900s as assistant to the head epidemiologist at New York's Department of Health and Sanitation, who is trying to discover how a seemingly healthy woman can be spreading typhoid fever.
Schools: 1