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Author:

Hopkinson, Deborah, author.

Title:

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

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

Alfred A. Knopf,

Copyright Date:

2013

Description:

249 pages : maps ; 22 cm

Subject:

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.
Cholera--Fiction.
Epidemics--Fiction.
Orphans--Fiction.
London (England)--History--19th century--Fiction.
Great Britain--History--Victoria, 1837-1901--Fiction.
Snow, John,--1813-1858.
Cholera--Juvenile fiction.
Epidemics--Juvenile fiction.
Orphans--Juvenile fiction.
Great Britain--Victoria, 1837-1901.--History.
London (England)--History--19th century.
Snow, John,--1813-1858.
Cholera.
Epidemics.
Orphans.
England--London.
Great Britain.
Historical fiction.
Cholera--Fiction.
London (England)--Fiction.--19th century--Fiction.
Great Britain--Fiction.--Victoria, 1837-1901--Fiction.
Epidemics--Fiction.
Orphans--Fiction.
London (England)--History--Fiction.
Great Britain--History--19th century--Fiction.
1800-1901
Local author.
Detective and mystery fiction.
Fiction.
Historical fiction.
History.
Juvenile works.
Medical fiction.
Mystery fiction.
Medical fiction.
Historical fiction.
Detective and mystery stories.
Historical fiction.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-247).

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.

Series:

Texas Lone Star Reading List, 2015-2016

ISBN:

0375843086
9780375843082
0605717389
9780605717381
9780449818190
0449818195
037594818X
9780375948183
0375848185
9780375848186

OCLC:

(OCoLC)809988963

LCCN:

2012032799

Locations:

GEPG771 -- West Des Moines Public Library (West Des Moines) — Copies: 15