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Julie Chibbaro and
Jean-marc Superville Sovak (illustrator)
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Atheneum
Publication date
February 22, 2011
Pages
293
Binding
Hardcover
Book category
Juvenile Fiction
ISBN-13
9780689857386
ISBN-10
0689857381
Dimensions
0.75 by 5.50 by 8.25 in.
Weight
0.85 lbs.
Original list price
$17.99
Other format details
juvenile
Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: A mysterious outbreak of typhoid fever is sweeping New York.
Could the cityâs future rest with its most unlikely scientist?
If Prudence Galewski is ever going to get out of Mrs. Browningâs esteemed School for Girls, she must demonstrate her refinement and charm by securing a job appropriate for a young lady. But Prudence isnât like the other girls. She is fascinated by how the human body works and why it fails.
With a stroke of luck, she lands a position in a laboratory, where she is swept into an investigation of the fever bound to change medical history. Prudence quickly learns that an inquiry of this proportion is not confined to the lab. From ritzy mansions to shady bars and rundown tenements, she explores every potential cause of the disease. But thereâs no answer in sightâuntil the volatile Mary Mallon emerges. Dubbed âTyphoid Maryâ by the press, Mary is an Irish immigrant who has worked as a cook in every home the fever has ravaged. Strangely, though, she hasnât been sick a day in her life. Is the accusation against her an act of discrimination? Or is she the first clue in a new scientific discovery?
Prudence is determined to find out. In a time when science is for men, sheâll have to prove to the city, and to herself, that she can help solve one of the greatest medical mysteries of the twentieth century.
Could the cityâs future rest with its most unlikely scientist?
If Prudence Galewski is ever going to get out of Mrs. Browningâs esteemed School for Girls, she must demonstrate her refinement and charm by securing a job appropriate for a young lady. But Prudence isnât like the other girls. She is fascinated by how the human body works and why it fails.
With a stroke of luck, she lands a position in a laboratory, where she is swept into an investigation of the fever bound to change medical history. Prudence quickly learns that an inquiry of this proportion is not confined to the lab. From ritzy mansions to shady bars and rundown tenements, she explores every potential cause of the disease. But thereâs no answer in sightâuntil the volatile Mary Mallon emerges. Dubbed âTyphoid Maryâ by the press, Mary is an Irish immigrant who has worked as a cook in every home the fever has ravaged. Strangely, though, she hasnât been sick a day in her life. Is the accusation against her an act of discrimination? Or is she the first clue in a new scientific discovery?
Prudence is determined to find out. In a time when science is for men, sheâll have to prove to the city, and to herself, that she can help solve one of the greatest medical mysteries of the twentieth century.
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