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Subtitle: a story of the polio epidemic
By: by Lydia Weaver ; illustrated by Aileen Arrington
Contributors: Arrington, Aileen
Series: Once upon America; Once upon America
Publisher: Puffin Books
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 55
ISBN-13: 9780606112154
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.
Notes: Originally published: New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Viking, ℗♭1993.