Summary
The Girl in the Iron Lung: A Summer of Secrets
Eleven-year-old Georgie loves science-fiction movies, but she won’t be going to the theater anytime soon. It’s a hot Indiana summer in 1952, and public places from pools to camps are closing to slow the spread of polio. Despite all the headlines, Georgie never thought she’d come as close to the fearful disease as she does when she spies a silver glint in her neighbor’s yard.
There she discovers a monstrous, hissing machine, and …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780763639822 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0763639826 |
| Author: | Kathryn Lasky |
| Publisher: | Candlewick Press,U.S. |
| Imprint: | Candlewick Press,U.S. |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 368 |
| Release Date: | 11 May 2010 |
| Weight: | 447g |
| Dimensions: | 200mm x 141mm x 36mm |
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About The Author
Kathryn Lasky
Kathryn Lasky is the author of many acclaimed books of fiction and nonfiction, including One Beetle Too Many: The Extraordinary Adventures of Charles Darwin and Sugaring Time, a Newbery Honor book. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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