Plague Booklist

Book recommendations pertaining to Plagues.

Book Title	Author	Reading Age	Time Period	Time Frame	Geographic Area	Country	Topic	Genre	Format
Invincible Microbe	Murphy, Jim	UMG YA	Age of Revolutions	10,000 BCE-2009 CE	North America Europe	United States	Plagues Tuberculosis	NF	CB
History Smashers: Plagues and Pandemics	Messner, Kate	MG UMG	Modern Age	430 BCE-2019 CE	North America Europe	United States	Plagues Pandemics	NF	B
Wild Bird	Zahler, Diane	UMG YA	High Middle Ages	1300-1399	Europe	France Norway	Plagues Medieval Life Bubonic Plague	F	N
Eleanore of Avignon	DeLozier, Elizabeth	A	High Middle Ages	1347-1348	Europe	France	Plagues Medieval Life Bubonic Plague Women in Science	F	N
A Cloud of Outrageous Blue	Stamper, Vesper	YA A	High Middle Ages	1348-1349	Europe	England	Plagues Medieval Life Bubonic Plague	HF	N
Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague	Paton Walsh, Jill	YA A	Enlightenment	1665-1666	Europe	Great Britain	Plagues Bubonic Plague	F	N
A Parcel of Patterns	Paton Walsh, Jill	YA A	Enlightenment	1665-1666	Europe	Great Britain	Plagues Bubonic Plague	F	N
Master Cornhill	Jarvis McGraw, Eloise	UMG	Enlightenment	1665-1666	Europe	Great Britain	Plagues Bubonic Plague Fires Great Fire of London	F	CB
The Lost Apothecary	Penner, Sarah	A	Age of Revolutions	1791-2021	Europe	Great Britain	Plagues Women in Science London Poison	F	N
Fever 1793	Anderson, Laurie Halse	UMG	Age of Revolutions	1793	North America	United States	Plagues Yellow Fever	F	CB
The Birchbark House	Erdrich, Louise	MG UMG	Industrial Age	1847	North America	United States	Ojibwe Nation Indigenous Americans Plagues	F OV	CB
Fever Year: The Killer Flu of 1918	Brown, Don	UMG YA	Modern Age	1918	North America	United States	Plagues Spanish Influenza epidemic	NF	GN
Like the Willow Tree	Lowry, Lois	MG UMG	Modern Age	1918-1919	North America	United States	Plagues Spanish Influenza epidemic	F	CB
Very, Very, Very Dreadful: The Influenza Pandemic of 1918	Marrin, Albert	YA	Modern Age	1918-1919	North America	United States	Plagues Spanish Influenza epidemic	NF	B
A Death-Struck Year	Lucier, Makiia	YA	Modern Age	1918-1919	North America	United States	Plagues Spanish Influenza epidemic	F	N
As Bright As Heaven	Meissner, Susan	A	Modern Age	1918-1926	North America	United States	Plagues Spanish Influenza epidemic	F	N
In the Shadow of Blackbirds	Winters, Cat	YA	Modern Age	1918-1919	North America	United States	Plagues Spanish Influenza epidemic	F	N
New From Here	Yang, Kelly	MG UMG	Modern Age	2019-2020	North America Asia	United States Hong Kong	Asian Americans COVID-19 Pandemic Plagues	F	CB
Rez Dogs	Bruchac, Joseph	MG UMG	Modern Age	2020	North America	United States	Indigenous Americans Wabanaki Nation COVID-19 Pandemic Plagues	F	CB

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List of abbreviations:

Reading Age	Genre	Format
LE = lower elementary MG = middle grade (8 – 12) UMG = upper-middle grade (11 – 14) YA = young adult (14+) A = adult	NF - non-fiction F = fiction Bio = Biography HF = historical fantasy OV - own voices M = mythology S = spine book	PB = picture book GN = graphic novel ER = early reader CB = chapter book N = novel