Typhoid Mary: An Urban Historical
by Bourdain, Anthony
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AR Book Level
8.5
AR Points
6
Word Count
33,020
Interest Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Genre
Nonfiction
AR Quiz #
68452 EN
About this book
This is a sympathetic historical examination of early-twentieth-century Irish-American cook Mary Mallon, who was immortalized as "Typhoid Mary" after a sanitary engineer traced a 1904 typhoid fever outbreak back to her Long Island kitchen.
