by Chibbaro, Julie
In the early nineteen-hundreds, sixteen-year-old Prudence Galewski leaves school to take a job assisting the head epidemiologist at New York's Department of Health and Sanitation, investigating the intriguing case of "Typhoid Mary," a seemingly healthy woman who is infecting others with typhoid fever. Includes a historical note by the author.
ISBN: 9780689857393
304 pages
Published: 2012-02-21
Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers