{"id":555,"date":"2020-03-20T19:11:03","date_gmt":"2020-03-20T19:11:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/yabooklists\/?page_id=555"},"modified":"2020-03-25T15:19:05","modified_gmt":"2020-03-25T15:19:05","slug":"pandemic-epidemic","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/yabooklists\/topics\/pandemic-epidemic\/","title":{"rendered":"Pandemic \/ Epidemic"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The words \u201cpandemic\u201d and \u201cepidemic\u201d are a scary part of our current reality.\u00a0 A pandemic is a disease that is present across a country or the world.\u00a0 An epidemic is the outbreak of a disease that spreads rapidly and hits a lot of people at once.\u00a0 Long before our current pandemic of Covid-19, there were epidemics that effectives countries and continents\u2014think of plagues and large scale flu outbreaks.Young adult authors have written a lot of novels about epidemics that actually happened and imagined epidemics and pandemics in different time periods, societies, and planets.\u00a0 Here are just a few of the ones that we have found.\u00a0\u00a0Please let us know if you have others! Contact us at\u00a0e.pendergrass@vanderbilt.edu<\/a><\/p>\n

A Death-Struck Year<\/u>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>Makiia Lucier<\/p>\n

The Eleventh Plague<\/u><\/strong><\/em>\u00a0Jeff Hirsch<\/p>\n

Fever, 1793<\/u>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>Laurie Halse Anderson<\/p>\n

The Last Dog on Earth<\/u>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>Daniel Ehrenhaft<\/p>\n

Plague<\/u><\/strong><\/em>\u00a0Michael Grant<\/p>\n

At the Sign of the Sugared Plum<\/u><\/strong><\/em>\u00a0Mary Hooper<\/p>\n

The Way We Fall<\/u>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>Megan Crewe<\/p>\n

Chasing Secrets<\/u><\/strong><\/em>\u00a0Gennifer Choldenko<\/p>\n

Deadly<\/u>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>Julie Chibbaro<\/p>\n

The Plague<\/u>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>Joanne Dahme<\/p>\n

The Goodbye Season<\/u>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>Marian Hale<\/p>\n

Agnes at the End of the World<\/u>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>Kelly McWilliams<\/p>\n

The Treatment<\/u>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>Suzanne Young<\/p>\n

Pandemic<\/u><\/strong><\/em>\u00a0Yvonne Ventresca<\/p>\n

A Matter of Days<\/u><\/strong><\/em>\u00a0Amber Kizer<\/p>\n

The Program<\/u><\/strong><\/em>\u00a0Suzanne Young<\/p>\n

Conversion<\/u><\/strong><\/em>\u00a0Katherine Howe<\/p>\n

Love is the Drug<\/u><\/strong><\/em>\u00a0Alaya Dawn Johnson<\/p>\n

The Fear\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/em>Charlie Higson<\/p>\n

The Sacrifice<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0<\/u>Charlie Higson<\/p>\n

Plague 99<\/u><\/strong><\/em>\u00a0Jean Ure<\/p>\n

Virals\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/em>Kathy Reichs<\/p>\n

Peeps\u00a0<\/u>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>Scott Westerfield<\/p>\n

Seizure\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/em>\u00a0Kathy Reichs<\/p>\n

Fever Year: The Killer Flue of 1918<\/u>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>Don Brown<\/p>\n

Breath<\/u><\/strong><\/em>\u00a0Donna Jo Napoli<\/p>\n

The Plague Tales<\/u>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>Anne Benson<\/p>\n

The House on Hound Hill<\/u>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>Maggie Prince<\/p>\n

Hero of Lesser Causes<\/u><\/strong><\/em>\u00a0Julie Johnston<\/p>\n

The Heaven Shop<\/u><\/strong><\/em>\u00a0Deborah Ellis<\/p>\n

Footprints at the Window<\/u><\/strong><\/em>\u00a0Phyllis Reynolds Naylor<\/p>\n

The Cure<\/u><\/strong><\/em>\u00a0Sonia Levitin<\/p>\n

Masque of the Red Death<\/u><\/strong><\/em>\u00a0Bethany Griffin<\/p>\n

Dance of the Red Death<\/u>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>Bethany Griffin<\/p>\n

I Am Rembrandts\u2019 Daughter<\/u><\/strong><\/em>\u00a0Lynn Cullen<\/p>\n

The Sunbird<\/u>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>Elizabeth E. Wein<\/p>\n

All Fall Down<\/u>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>Susan Geason<\/p>\n

Suicide Notes from Dead Girls\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/em>\u00a0Lynn Weingarten<\/p>\n

Survive the Night\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/em>Danielle Vega<\/p>\n

Quarantine: The Loners<\/strong><\/em><\/span> Lex Thomas<\/p>\n

Quarantine: A Love Story<\/strong><\/em><\/span> Katie Cicatelli-Kuc<\/p>\n

Light Years<\/strong><\/em><\/span> Emily Ziff Griffin<\/p>\n

Delirium<\/strong><\/em><\/span> Lauren Oliver<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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