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Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"A kid-friendly look at the economic and environmental impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, such as why businesses are closed, why people are losing jobs, and how the environment is being (positively) impacted in the absence of industry. Additional features include informative captions, interesting factual sidebars, suggested activities, a phonetic glossary, resources for further research, information about the author, and an index."--Provided by the...
Author
Series
Autumn novels volume 3
Pub. Date
[2011]
Description
"A bastard hybrid of War of the Worlds and Night of the Living Dead, the Autumn series chronicles the struggle survivors are forced to contend with in a world torn apart by a deadly disease. 99% of the population of the planet has been killed in less than 24 hours. Animated by "phase two" of some unknown contagion, the dead begin to rise. At first slow, blind, dumb and lumbering, the bodies soon regain their most basic senses and abilities--sight,...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"A spare and gripping novel about the next pandemic--completed by the award-winning Jim Shepard before COVID-19 even emerged--that reads like a fictional sequel to our current crisis. In a tiny settlement on the west coast of Greenland, 11-year-old Aleq and his best friend, frequent trespassers at a mining site exposed to mountains of long-buried and thawing permafrost, carry what they pick up back into their village, and from there Shepard's harrowing...
87) Autumn: the city
Author
Series
Autumn novels volume 2
Pub. Date
[2011]
Description
"A disease of unimaginable ferocity has torn across the face of the planet, leaving billions dead. A small group of survivors shelter in the remains of a devastated city, hiding in terror as the full effects of the horrific infection start to become clear. The sudden appearance of a company of soldiers again threatens the survivors' fragile existence. Do they bring with them hope, help, and answers, or more pain, fear, and suffering?"--P. [4] of cover....
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
This title examines the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic from its emergence in Wuhan, China, to its worldwide spread. Actions by different countries to slow its spread such as lockdowns, face masks, social distancing, and widespread testing are examined.
Author
Series
Covert One volume 1
Formats
Description
People are horribly and painfully dying from the effects of a hitherto unknown viral agent, and Lt. Col. Jonathan Smith is assigned to solve the mystery of the virus's abrupt appearance. An old friend from the FBI, who may or may not be on the same side, warns him off, and Smith begins to take the warnings seriously when the disease strikes too close to home.
95) Pandemics
Series
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
Examines the threat from infectious pandemics, fighting them today and what they are doing for the future.
96) Virus
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"The world has recovered from COVID-19, but a new danger soon arises: it is the outbreak of what could potentially be an even more deadly virus. To almost everyone, the situation seems tragic but innocent. However, is there something more sinister at play? A few people certainly believe so. Two top medical scientists have disappeared. They may hold the key to helping the world understand what is really going on with this new virus. Now, British secret...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Factual yet simple text about the rise of COVID-19, how it spreads, and steps we can take to avoid spreading disease to others. Colorful diagrams show how viruses enter a host and replicate in cells, and explain how lower-respiratory illnesses affect people.
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
" From yellow fever to smallpox to polio to AIDS to COVID-19, epidemics have prompted Americans to make choices and answer questions about their basic values and their laws. In five concise chapters, historian John Fabian Witt traces the legal history of epidemics, showing how infectious disease has both shaped, and been shaped by, the law. Arguing that throughout American history legal approaches to public health have been liberal for some communities...
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