@book{1208,
  keywords = {retail industry, Quecreek Mine rescue, September 11 attacks, War on Terror, United Airlines Flight 93, addiction, methamphetamine, coal industry},
  author = {Edward Bloor},
  title = {A Plague Year},
  abstract = {On September 10, 2001, Tom Coleman is a freshman studying for PSATs in Baclwater, a fictitious town near Somerset, Somerset County. When an attempted robbery hits his father’s grocery store, a great “plague” begins to spread over the region: United Airlines Flight 93, meth dens spreading like wildfire, addicts walking like zombies, and the Quecreek mine disaster. Tom’s English teacher reacts by having the school read Daniel Defoe's <em>A Journal of the Plague Year</em> and watch George Romero's <em>Night of the Living Dead</em>. },
  year = {2011},
  pages = {305 p.},
  publisher = {Alfred A. Knopf},
  address = {New York},
  note = {A 2012-2013 Young Reader's Choice Award selection.},
  language = {English},
}