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Language
English
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Young Anna Frith, a vicar's maid, is faced with the loss of her family, the disintegration of her local community, and a passionate, illicit love as she and her village confront the horrors of the plague, in a historical novel based on real-life events in seventeenth-century England.
2) Illuminae
Author
Series
Illuminae files volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Caught in the crossfire of a megacorporation rivalry in 2575, Kady and Ezra, who have just broken up, flee their home planet on an evacuation ship that is quickly overwhelmed by a fast-spreading plague.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Taking readers back to the horrific years of the Black Death, the deadliest pandemic recorded in history, this eye-opening book looks at what caused this disease, how society reacted to it and the impact it left on the world.
Author
Language
English
Description
In this revelatory book, professor Jonathan Kennedy argues that the myth of human exceptionalism overstates the role that we play in social and political change. Instead, it is the humble microbe that wins wars and topples empires. Drawing on the latest research in fields ranging from genetics and anthropology to archeology and economics, Pathogenesis takes us through 60,000 years of history, exploring eight major outbreaks of infectious disease that...
6) Legend
Author
Series
Legend (Marie Lu) volume 1
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
In a dark future, when North America has split into two warring nations, fifteen-year-olds Day, a famous criminal, and prodigy June, the brilliant soldier hired to capture him, discover that they have a common enemy.
Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Former flight attendant Jiselle Dorn's idyllic family life as the wife of pilot Mark Dorn and the mother of two soon grows wearisome, since Mark is always away and her children are hostile, but nothing can prepare her for the threat of the Phoenix Flu, which endangers the very lives they have all imagined.
Author
Series
Gone novels volume 4
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
A deadly, flu-like epidemic and a plague of flesh-eating creatures threaten the lives of the children at Perdido Beach while Sam, Astrid, Caine, and Diana each struggle with doubts and uncertainties.
9) The dead
Author
Series
Enemy series (Charlie Higson) volume 2
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2011, c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
When a plague turns anyone over the age of sixteen into flesh-craving monsters, a group of teenagers escape from their infested high school and head for London with the hopes of finding a safe haven there.
10) Defy the worlds
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Sophisticated robot Abel must save teenaged soldier Noemi from capture on a hidden planet, while outwitting armies of deranged service robots and securing medical aid for a plague on Noemi's home world.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
June and Day's hopes for peace are shattered by a plague outbreak that renews warfare throughout the panicked Colonies, a situation that forces the Republic to consider a means of defense that threatens everything Day has worked for.
Author
Series
Plague trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Dell
Pub. Date
2007, c2006
Language
English
Description
A novel spanning two worlds caught in the midst of a horrific crisis ranges from a fourteenth-century Europe devastated by the Black Death to a near-future world in which survivors of a deadly plague struggle to rebuild the broken bonds of civilization.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the aftermath of a devastating plague, young Lord Cassia returns home determined to discover who is trying to assassinate the queen, and must follow the trail of a terrible secret that could threaten the kingdom's newfound peace.
16) The night parade
Author
Publisher
Kensington Pub Corp
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
They call it Wanderer's Folly, a disease of delusions, of daydreams and nightmares. A plague threatening to wipe out the human race. After two years of creeping decay, David Arlen woke up one morning thinking that the worst was over. By midnight, he's bleeding and terrified, his wife is dead, and he's on the run in a stolen car with his eight-year-old daughter, who may be the key to a cure. Ellie knows her father is lying about what they're running...
17) Plague land
Author
Series
Remade volume 3
Publisher
Sourcebooks Fire
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
An unidentified virus wipes out most of the Earth's population and Leon, his mother, and younger sister Grace, who just moved to London from New York, must run for their lives.
18) The Black Death
Author
Series
Publisher
Gareth Stevens Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
19) This mortal coil
Author
Series
Mortal coil series volume 1
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
In a world where people are implanted with technology to recode their DNA, gene-hacking genius Cat must decrypt her late father's message concealing a vaccine to a horrifying plague.
Author
Series
Immortal Knight Chronicles volume 4
Publisher
Dan Davis
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
AD 1346. King Edward III seeks to take the crown of France by right of conquest. On the battlefield of Crecy, immortal knight Richard of Ashbury confronts a mysterious knight with inhuman strength fighting beneath a banner as black as death. To find his enemy, Richard assembles a company of veteran men-at-arms and deadly English archers. Together, they must invade France and bring a mighty French army to battle. But Richard’s hunt for the murderous...
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