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Yesterday's Dead

by Pat Bourke

Ages: 12+

Published: 2012

Publisher: Second Story

ISBN: 978-1-926920-32-0

Keywords: Crises, Flu epidemic 1918

Will thirteen-year-old Meredith, a household servant, be able to manage the crisis when all the adults are stricken with the flu that swept Toronto in 1918?