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

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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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hopkinson, Deborah (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2013.
Edition:First Edition.
Subjects:
Cholera > Fiction.
Epidemics > Fiction.
Orphans > Fiction.
London (England) > History > 19th century > Fiction.
Great Britain > History > Victoria, 1837-1901 > Fiction.
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.
Historical fiction.
Medical fiction.
Mystery fiction.
Description
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.
Physical Description:249 pages : maps ; 22 cm
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-247).
ISBN:9780375848186 (hard cover)
0375848185 (hard cover)
9780375948183 (library binding)
037594818X (library binding)
0449818195 (ebk.)
9780449818190 (ebk.)