Fatal Fever: Tracking Down Typhoid Mary
by Gail Jarrow
Sanitary engineer and chemist George Soper was a “germ detective” in... read more
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- Grade
- 4-8
- Genre
- Nonfiction
Year Published 2015
Word Count 26,869
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 1010L
- ATOS Reading Level: 7.4
- AR Quiz Numbers
- Quiz 172583, 5.0 AR Points
- Curricular Area
- Health
- History
- Social Studies
- STEAM
- Subject Headings
- Typhoid Mary
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Health & Daily Living | Diseases, Illnesses & Injuries
- Juvenile Nonfiction | History | United States - 20th Century
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Science & Nature | Discoveries
- Typhoid fever
- Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Nonfiction
- Typhoid fever--Juvenile literature
- Typhoid Mary, 1869-1938--Juvenile literature
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Awards & Distinctions 2
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Selection, 2016
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Nonfiction Selection, 2015
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