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Gr 6-10 During a hot summer in 1952, 11-year-old Georgia Louise Mason's family moves to a new neighborhood in Indiana. Her brother, Emmett, loves astronomy and basketball and doesn't mind, but she misses her old friends, though everything has changed since the outbreak of polio. She keeps track of the numbers of new cases from newspaper accounts; she has a grim fascination with this frightening killer disease. She is no longer allowed to swim in public pools or go places where people gather, such as movies. She befriends P...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

During the height of the 1950s polio epidemic, Georgie obsesses about the disease. She knows the symptoms (all three stages); tallies the number of new cases in her hometown; and notes the deaths. Imagine her fascination when her family moves and she discovers that her new teenage neighbor, Phyllis, is in an iron lung. At first Georgie is curious, then she's thrilled to be part of Phyllis's environment—one in which ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

During the 1950s polio epidemic, eleven-year-old Georgie obsesses about the disease. Imagine her fascination when her new tee...Log In or Sign Up to Read More