What Was the Plague? (What Was?)

by Roberta Edwards (Author) Dede Putra (Illustrator)

What Was the Plague? (What Was?)
Reading Level: 4th − 5th Grade
Series: What Was?

Oh, rats! It's time to take a deeper look at what caused the Black Death--the deadliest pandemic recorded in human history.

While the coronavirus COVID-19 changed the world in 2020, it still isn't the largest and deadliest pandemic in history. That title is held by the Plague. This disease, also known as the Black Death, spread throughout Asia, Africa, and Europe in the fourteenth century and claimed an astonishing 50 million lives by the time it officially ended. Author Roberta Edwards takes readers back to these grimy and horrific years, explaining just how this pandemic began, how society reacted to the disease, and the impact it left on the world.

With 80 black-and-white illustrations and an engaging 16-page photo insert, readers will be excited to read this latest additon to Who HQ!

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Roberta Edwards
Roberta Edwards has written several books for young readers. She lives in New York, New York.
Classification
Non-fiction
ISBN-13
9780593383650
Lexile Measure
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Guided Reading Level
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Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Publication date
November 09, 2021
Series
What Was?
BISAC categories
JNF025070 - Juvenile Nonfiction | History | Europe
JNF024020 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Health & Daily Living | Diseases, Illnesses & Injuries
JNF038060 - Juvenile Nonfiction | People & Places | Europe
Library of Congress categories
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