Great Trouble: A Mystery of London, the Blue Death, and a Boy Called Eel | 
I love it when the books I‘m reading intersect. Yesterday while listening to The Great Trouble, set in London in 1854, the main character mentioned North and South, my current #PemberLittens read. 📚 😁
#BookSerendipity
pickI first saw this book a couple years ago at a Scholastic book fair. However, neither the cover nor the synopsis seemed like an easy sell for my students, so I didn‘t buy it. Today I listened and was fascinated by this story of the 1854 Broad Street cholera epidemic and Dr John Snow, who I knew a bit about from previous reading. I thought the intertwining of Snow‘s real research with the fictional character of Eel was fantastic.
This is the last stack! I need your #opinion. What do you like? Thanks for all your help! I'm looking forward to next month. #MiddleGradeMay #juvenilefiction #juvenilenonfiction
pickAs I was reading, I felt the book reminded me a lot of The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson, which was amazing. At the end, the author said she based her book on his. While this was a totally solid read, and a great intro to cholera for kids (which is a really weird idea), I think I wiuld have enjoyed this more if I'd read it first. Still, a really good book.
Reading at the charging station and waiting for my flight to Pittsburgh for a conference. The glamorous life of a librarian!
pickGreat historical fiction! Characters you care about, and interesting to see how we have figured out how diseases are really contracted vs. superstition believed for hundreds of years
