influenza epidemic, 1918-1919

Twelve-year-old Fiona Macgregor uses her journal to record her thoughts and fears about the Great War and the flu epidemic of 1918.

Lydia, an Irish American shopgirl marries Henry Wickett, a shy medical student; however, soon after their wedding, Henry quits school to create a mail-order patent medicine and Lydia finds herself working in an experimental ward during the influenza epidemic.

Just after the First World War, thirteen-year-old Meredith must leave her small-town school to work as a servant in a doctor's home to help support her family, but, when the deadly Spanish Flu epidemic sweeps across the city, the doctor's household falls apart as its members fall ill one by one.

In the spring of 1918, the Spanish Flu epidemic spreads even as World War I is ending. Nurse Bess Crawford has her hands full with war wounded and now, dead bodies. When Bess discovers a murdered man among the deceased flu victims, she knows she needs to report the news. But before she can, she also becomes ill with the flu. By the time she recovers, the murdered body has been buried and the only other person who saw it has hanged himself. Or did he?.

Discusses the outbreak and worldwide spread of the deadly Spanish flu in 1918, methods of treating it, and efforts to study this killer virus and others like it.

Combines first-person accounts and dramatic photographs to describe the flu pandemic of 1918, discussing its cause, spread, consequences, and other related topics.

After moving to Salt Lake City, thirteen-year-old Sadie finds a journal in a hidey-hole in the attic, and along with her sister and new friend she reads about the influenza epidemic of 1918.