Plague-Busters!: Medicine's Battles with History's Deadliest Diseases by Fitzharris, Lindsey

Plague-Busters!: Medicine's Battles with History's Deadliest Diseases

From New York Times bestselling author Lindsey Fitzharris, a riveting middle grade nonfiction book about diseases that...
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Author: Lindsey Fitzharris
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Plague-Busters!: Medicine's Battles with History's Deadliest Diseases by Fitzharris, Lindsey

Plague-Busters!: Medicine's Battles with History's Deadliest Diseases

$30.81

Plague-Busters!: Medicine's Battles with History's Deadliest Diseases

$30.81
Author: Lindsey Fitzharris
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

From New York Times bestselling author Lindsey Fitzharris, a riveting middle grade nonfiction book about diseases that have shaped the course of human history.

* "Chock-full of awesomely appalling medical history." -Shelf Awareness, starred review
* "Engaging, informative, but also gross." -School Library Journal, starred review

School Library Journal
Best Book of 2023
Cybils 2023 Nonfiction Middle Grade Finalist
2024 Best STEM Books Award from National Science Teaching Association
2024 Grateful American Book Prize Honorable Mention

Smallpox! Rabies! Black Death! Throughout history humankind has been plagued by . . . well, by plagues. The symptoms of these diseases were gruesome-but the remedies were even worse.

Get to know the ickiest illnesses that have infected humans and affected civilizations through the ages. Each chapter explores the story of a disease, including the scary symptoms, kooky cures, and brilliant breakthroughs that it spawned. Medical historian and bestselling author Lindsey Fitzharris lays out the facts with her trademark wit, and Adrian Teal adds humor with cartoons and caricatures drawn in pitch black and blood red. Diseases covered in this book include bubonic plague, smallpox, rabies, tuberculosis, cholera, and scurvy.

Thanks to centuries of sickness and a host of history's most determined plague-busters, this riveting book features everything you've ever wanted to know about the world's deadliest diseases.

Author: Lindsey Fitzharris,Adrian Teal
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: 10/10/2023
Pages: 160
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 9.06h x 6.14w x 0.79d
ISBN: 9781547606030
Audience: Ages 9-12


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 08/15/2023
Booklist 09/01/2023 pg. 76
School Library Journal 10/01/2023 pg. 90
Shelf Awareness 10/20/2023
Horn Book Magazine 11/01/2023 pg. 96
Hornbook Guide to Children 07/01/2023 - Superior,Well Above Average

About the Author

Lindsey Fitzharris is the bestselling author of The Butchering Art and The Facemaker. Dr. Fitzharris, who holds a Ph.D. in the History of Science and Medicine from Oxford University, regularly writes for the Wall Street Journal, Scientific American, the Guardian, the Lancet, and other major publications. She is also the writer and host of the Smithsonian Channel TV series The Curious Life and Death of....
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Adrian Teal is a caricaturist, cartoonist, fine artist, and illustrator with clients around the world. His work has appeared in numerous TV shows including Spitting Image and Big Heads. He has produced art for publications such as the Sunday Telegraph, the Times, the Guardian, Time Out, and the Daily Mail.
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