Deadly
By: Julie Chibbaro ; illustrated by Jean-Marc Superville Sovak
Contributors: Superville Sovak, Jean-Marc, ill
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780689857386
Description: 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.