It’s both emblematic of the COVID-19 pandemic or essentially the most over-used phrase of 2020. Both manner, we couldn’t resist utilizing it for this week’s Backlist Ebook Listing! We promise it’s extra riveting than pivoting.
Laurie Halse Anderson’s award-winning e-book Fever 1793 was printed in 2000, six years earlier than the Cybils Awards launched. It’s a historic fiction novel about Mattie Cook dinner, a 14-year-old woman dwelling in Philadelphia through the Yellow Fever epidemic.
Becky Herzog’s GoodReads evaluate explains higher than we are able to why Fever 1793 was such an apropos learn for 2020:
Regardless of the last decade or century an epidemic could be scary, terrifying even. However at a time when docs had been completely clueless but assured that they knew what they had been doing, it’s extraordinarily terrifying. ~Becky’s Evaluations
With Laurie Halse Anderson’s e-book as our basis, we discovered some Cybils-nominated “learn alikes.” Like our Voices for Social Change e-book record, this assortment skews closely – however not solely! – towards nonfiction.
The very best half?
Grownup readers might be simply as fascinated by these books because the meant viewers.
Between Shades of Grey
by Ruta Sepetys
2011 Finalist Younger Grownup Fiction |
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Blood and Germs: The Civil Conflict Battle In opposition to Wounds and Illness (Medical Fiascoes) by Gail Jarrow
2020 Nominee Center Grade Nonfiction |
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Breakthrough!: How Three Folks Saved “Blue Infants” and Modified Drugs Without end
by Jim Murphy
2016 Nominee Center Grade Nonfiction |
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Bubonic Panic:
When Plague Invaded America by Gail Jarrow
2016 Finalist Center Grade Nonfiction |
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The Disappearing Spoon: And Different True Tales of Rivalry, Journey, and the Historical past of the World from the Periodic Desk of the Components (Younger Readers Version)
by Sam Kean
2018 Finalist Center Grade Nonfiction |
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A Fever, a Flight, and a Combat for the World
The Rwendigo Tales,Ebook 4 by Jennifer A Myhre
2018 Nominee Younger Grownup Speculative Fiction |
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How They Croaked:
The Terrible Ends of the Awfully Well-known by Georgia Bragg, illustrated by Kevin O’Malley
2011 Finalist Center Grade Nonfiction |
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I Really feel Higher with a Frog in My Throat:
Historical past’s Strangest Cures written and illustrated by Carlyn Beccia
2011 Winner Elementary/Center Grade Nonfiction |
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A Plague of Bogles
Methods to Catch a Bogle, Ebook 2 b7 Catherine Jinks
2015 Nominee Elementary/Center Grade Speculative Fiction |
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Poison: Lethal Deeds, Perilous Professions, and Murderous Medicines
by Sarah Albee
2017 Finalist Center Grade Nonfiction |
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The Secret of the Yellow Loss of life:
A True Story of Medical Sleuthing by Suzanne Jurmain
2010 Winner Younger Grownup Nonfiction |
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Very, Very, Very Dreadful:
The Influenza Pandemic of 1918 by Albert Marrin
2018 Nominee Younger Grownup Nonfiction |
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Wily and the Canine Pandemic
by Michelle Weidenbenner
2017 Nominee Elementary/Center Grade Speculative Fiction |
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