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Plagues, Pox, and Pestilence

Author: Platt, Richard

Reading Metrics

Grade Level Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level 6.8
Points 2.0
Fiction/Nonfiction Nonfiction
Word Count 9160
Points per Word 0.000218
Page Count 48
Points per Page 0.041667

Description

This history of disease and pestilence, told from the point of view of the bugs and pests that cause them, features case histories of specific epidemics and eyewitness accounts from the rats, flies, ticks, and creepy-crawlies that spread diseases.