TY - SER
KW - retail industry
KW - Quecreek Mine rescue
KW - September 11 attacks
KW - War on Terror
KW - United Airlines Flight 93
KW - addiction
KW - methamphetamine
KW - coal industry
AU - Edward Bloor
AB - 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>. 
C1 - <p>2001-2</p>
C3 - Somerset County
C4 - Children’s; Young Adult; War
CY - New York
LA - English
M3 - Novel
N1 - A 2012-2013 Young Reader's Choice Award selection.
N2 - 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>. 
PB - Alfred A. Knopf
PP - New York
PY - 2011
RN - Edward Bloor (1950- ) taught high school English in Florida before joining Harcourt Brace School Publishers as a senior editor.
EP - 305 p.
TI - A Plague Year
ER -