Dewey Discoveries: "Pandemic Survival: It's Why You're Alive" by Ann Love and Jane Drake

History is filled with life-threatening diseases that have wiped out entire populations. It's also filled with courageous people who fought those diseases, studied them and developed vaccines and cures for many of these illnesses. In a fusion of history, science, and sociology, Anne Love and Jane Drake have created a book that almost any kid could get into with "Pandemic Survival: It's Why You're Alive." From the bubonic plague to influenza, they cover the causes, symptoms, time and group, and the effects of the leading pandemics through the ages. They also chronicle the development of vaccines and cures, and talk about disease prevention. Heavy on text, this book is most appropriate for middle schoolers.

Dewey Number 614.4

--Andrea W., H.Q.