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A Death-Struck Year
A Death-Struck Year
Reviewed by: Nina Sachs - MLIS, Portland, Southern Maine Library District
Review Date: November 3, 2014
Review
Lucier's timely novel set during the 1918 Influenza Pandemic introduces us to Cleo Berry, a seventeen-year-old orphan who leaves the safety of her boarding school to volunteer in the Red Cross when the flu extends its claws to the West Coast. Unsparing in her depiction of the flu's predations and the fear of contagion that spreads even more rapidly, Lucier gives us a young woman whose courage is fully equal to anything that has emerged in any of the recent dystopias, and reminds us that historical events can grip us every bit as much as the imagined future. Cream
Overall Book Score: excellent
About the Book
Author:
Lucier, Makiia
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Book Type: chapter book fiction
Genre: historical fiction
Audience: grades 7-9, grades 10-12
Binding Type: trade edition
Binding Quality: good
ISBN: 9780544164505
Price: 17.99