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Author Hopkinson, Deborah.

Title The Great Trouble : a mystery of London, the blue death, and a boy called Eel / Deborah Hopkinson.

Edition First edition.
Publication Info. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2013.
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b1583965~S1
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 95th Street Juvenile Fiction  J HOPKINSO    AVAILABLE
 95th Street Juvenile Fiction  J HOPKINSO    AVAILABLE
 Naper Blvd. Juvenile Fiction  J HOPKINSO    AVAILABLE
 Nichols Juvenile Fiction  J HOPKINSO    AVAILABLE
 Nichols Juvenile Fiction  J HOPKINSO    AVAILABLE
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Description 249 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-247).
Summary Eel, an orphan, and his best friend Florrie must help Dr. John Snow prove that cholera is spread through water, and not poisonous air, when an epidemic sweeps across their London neighborhood in 1854.
Audience 660L Lexile
Note 660L Lexile
Study Program Accelerated Reader MG 4.6 7 161212
Note Accelerated Reader MG 4.6 7 161212
Subject Snow, John, 1813-1858 -- Juvenile fiction.
Cholera -- Juvenile fiction.
Epidemics -- Juvenile fiction.
Orphans -- Juvenile fiction.
London (England) -- History -- 19th century -- Juvenile fiction.
Great Britain -- History -- Victoria, 1837-1901 -- Juvenile fiction.
Local Subject BATTLE OF THE BOOKS DIST 203, 2014-2015
BATTLE OF THE BOOKS DIST 203, 2015-2016
REBECCA CAUDILL AWARD [2017 NOMINEE]
Genre Historical fiction.
Mystery fiction.
ISBN 9780375848186 (hard cover)
0375848185 (hard cover)
9780375948183 (library binding)
037594818X (library binding)
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Children's Staff X
December 17 2013
What does a young boy called Eel have to do with a scientist named Dr. John Snow, a minister named Rev. Henry Whitehead, and a statistician named Dr. William Farr? They are all involved in trying to stop a deadly epidemic in London in 1864. Can they gather enough evidence and convince enough people to get the source of the disease closed down in time to save their friends and community? Grades 5-8 dnj
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