A plague year
By: Edward Bloor
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780375856815; 9780375956812; 9780375989377; 9780375846090
Subjects: Methamphetamine; United Airlines Flight 93 Hijacking Incident, 2001; Drug abuse; Fiction; Supermarkets; Junior high schools; Schools; Coal mines and mining; Coal mine accidents
Description: A ninth-grader who works with his father in the local supermarket describes the plague of meth addiction that consumes many people in his Pennsylvania coal mining town from 9/11 and the nearby crash of United Flight 93 in Shanksville to the Quecreek Mine disaster in Somerset the following summer.