![]() and entertaining." - School Library Journal, Starred "For readers] who love suspense, drama, and mystery. "Hopkinson illuminates a pivotal chapter in the history of public health. Snow's theory-before the entire neighborhood is wiped out. May contain limited notes, underlining or highlighting that does affect the text. Spine creases, wear to binding and pages from reading. As the epidemic surges, it's up to Eel and his best friend, Florrie, to gather evidence to prove Dr. The Great Trouble: A Mystery of London, the Blue Death, and a Boy Called Eel by Deborah Hopkinson. Everyone believes that cholera is spread through poisonous air. But even for Eel, things aren't so bad until that fateful August day in 1854-the day the deadly cholera ("blue death") comes to Broad Street. And he's got a secret that costs him four precious shillings a week to keep safe. He's being hunted by Fisheye Bill Tyler, and a nastier man never walked the streets of London. The Great Trouble: A Mystery of London, the Blue Death, and a Boy Called Eel. The events of the Titanic disaster can be seen as a symbol of what happens through overconfidence in technology, complacence, and a mindset of profits over peoples safety. ![]() ![]() ![]() "A delightful combination of race-against-the-clock medical mystery and outwit-the-bad-guys adventure." - Publishers Weekly, Starred Eel has troubles of his own: As an orphan and a "mudlark," he spends his days in the filthy River Thames, searching for bits of things to sell. ![]()
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