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Subtitle: a story of the polio epidemic
By: by Lydia Weaver ; illustrated by Aileen Arrington.
Contributors: Arrington, Aileen, ill.
Series: Once upon America
Publisher: Viking
Published: 1993
Place of publication: New York, N.Y., U.S.A
Language: eng
Number of pages: 55
Subjects: Poliomyelitis -- Fiction.
Description: In the summer of 1952, Betsy sees her vacation fun overshadowed by the spreading polio epidemic, while her mother and other scientists work frantically to develop a vaccine for the crippling disease.