Catalog - The City Library

Format:

Audio Book on CD, Audio Books, Nonmusical Sound Recording, Sound Recording

Author:

Murphy, Jim, 1947-2022

Title:

An American plague : the true and terrifying story of the yellow fever epidemic of 1793 / by Jim Murphy.

Publisher, Date:

Prince Frederick, MD : Recorded Books, ℗2004.

Description:

4 audio discs (4 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.

Summary:

It's 1793, and there's an invisible killer roaming the streets of Philadelphia. The city's residents are fleeing in fear. This killer has a name--yellow fever--but everything else about it is a mystery. Its cause is unknown and there is no cure. This [book] traces the devastating course of the epidemic. [The book] offers a ... glimpse into the conditions in American cities at the time of our nation's birth while drawing thought-provoking parallels to modern-day epidemics.

Target Audience Note:

Ages 9 and up.

Middle School.

1130 Lexile.

Series:

Class set

Subjects:

Yellow fever -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- 18th century -- Juvenile literature.

Pennsylvania -- History -- 1775-1865 -- Juvenile sound recordings.

Genre:

Children's audiobooks.

Other Author:

Bottino, Pat.

Notes:

Unabridged.

Subtitle from container.

Performed by Pat Bottino.

Accelerated Reader 9.0.

Reading Counts! 8.9.

Issued also as Recorded Books Unabridged Nonfiction on compact disc with book.

Issued also on cassette.

Compact disc.

Contents:

No one noticed -- "All was not right" -- Church bells tolling -- Confusion, distress, and utter desolation -- "It was our duty" -- The prince of bleeders -- "By twelve only" -- "This unmerciful enemy" -- "A delicate situation" -- Improvements and the public gratitude -- "A modern-day time bomb."

ISBN:

1402587449

9781402587443

1402587465

9781402587467

1402587457

9781402587450

Publisher Number:

C2699

Other Number:

55081668

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

260631

# Local items in:

1

# System items in:

1

Call Number:

CD j 614.541 Murphy