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Author
Publisher
Millbrook Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"What's Ebola? Do we need to be afraid? This short book will take readers beyond the headlines to help them understand the 2014 outbreak. It will inform while helping to alleviate fears."--
43) Year one
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"It began on New Year's Eve. The sickness came on suddenly, and spread quickly. The fear spread even faster. Within weeks, everything people counted on began to fail them. The electrical grid sputtered; law and government collapsed--and more than half of the world's population was decimated. Where there had been order, there was now chaos. And as the power of science and technology receded, magic rose up in its place. Some of it is good, like the...
44) Ever constant
Author
Series
Treasures of Nome volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
"On the surface, Whitney Powell is happy working with her sled dogs, but her life is full of complications that push her over the edge. When sickness spreads in outlying villages, Dr. Peter Cameron turns to Whitney and her dogs for help navigating the deep snow, and together they discover that sometimes it's only in weakness you can find strength"--
Author
Publisher
Arsenal Pulp Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In this visionary novel by Larissa Lai--her first in sixteen years--a community of parthenogenic women, sent into exile by the male-dominated Salt Water City, goes to war against disease, technology, and powerful men that threaten them with extinction. Kirilow is a doctor apprentice whose lover Peristrophe is a "starfish," a woman who can regenerate her own limbs and organs, which she uses to help her clone sisters whose organs are failing. When...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old bird watcher Ben must defy his brother to save their father after the glass plague sweeps through their town and a voice on the radio demands the simultaneous shattering of all plague victims.--
51) Never fade
Author
Series
Darkest minds novels volume 2
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
"In the second installment of The Darkest Minds trilogy, Ruby joins forces with the revolutionary Children's League to find critical information about the epidemic that has torn both her life and America apart"--
Author
Series
Geronimo Stilton. Original series volume 63
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When the quest to find a cure to an epidemic targeting the citizens of New Mouse City is sabotaged, Geronimo Stilton must figure out who's behind it all before he ends up covered in blue spots too.--
53) Guardian
Author
Series
Proxy volume 2
Publisher
Philomel Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
"The only way to stop people from getting sick is to get the network back online. That means reversing the very revolution that Syd and Knox began"--
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"An engrossing family history of coronaviruses and the modern-day scientific quest to conquer viral epidemics forever. The urgency of the devastating COVID-19 pandemic has fixed humanity's gaze on the present crisis. But the story of this pandemic extends far further back than many realize. In this engrossing narrative, epidemiologist Dan Werb traces the rising threat of the coronavirus family and the attempts by a small group of scientists who worked...
55) Outbreak
Author
Publisher
Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
The waters off the West African coast are a menacing red, full of algae thick enough to stand on in places. In nearby villages, mysterious deaths start to occur--and the panic mounts. But before an alarm can be sounded, the sea currents shift, the algae vanishes, and the deaths stop. Everyone is relieved when things return to normal, and local government officials are happy to sweep the publicity nightmare under a rug. An American biological researcher,...
Author
Series
Return to Red River volume 3
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
58) Outlawed
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"The Crucible meets True Grit in this riveting adventure story of a fugitive girl, a mysterious gang of robbers, and their dangerous mission to transform the Wild West. In the year of our Lord 1894, I became an outlaw. The day of her wedding, 17 year old Ada's life looks good; she loves her husband, and she loves working as an apprentice to her mother, a respected midwife. But after a year of marriage and no pregnancy, in a town where barren women...
59) A single light
Author
Publisher
Howard Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Six months after vanishing into an underground silo with sixty others, Wynter and Chase emerge to find the area abandoned. There is no sign of Noah and the rest of the group that was supposed to greet them when they emerged--the same people Wynter was counting on to help her locate the IV antibiotics her gravely ill friend, Julie, needs in order to live. As the clock ticks down on Julie's life, Wynter and Chase embark on a desperate search for medicine...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The 2013-2014 Ebola epidemic was the deadliest ever--but the outbreaks continue. Now comes a gripping account of the doctors and scientists fighting to protect us, an urgent wake-up call about the future of emerging viruses--from the #1 bestselling author of The Hot Zone, soon to be a National Geographic original miniseries. This time, Ebola started with a two-year-old child who likely had contact with a wild creature and whose entire family quickly...
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