A Plague Year

Year of Publication
2011
Publication Type
Novel
Number of Pages or Episodes
305 p.
Language
English
Contributors Author: Edward Bloor
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
City
New York
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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 A Journal of the Plague Year and watch George Romero's Night of the Living Dead.
Notes
A 2012-2013 Young Reader's Choice Award selection.
Author Biography
Edward Bloor (1950- ) taught high school English in Florida before joining Harcourt Brace School Publishers as a senior editor.
Time

2001-2

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