Book description
Oh, rats! It's time to take a deeper look at what caused the Black Death--the deadliest pandemic recorded in human history.
While the coronavirus COVID-19 changed the world in 2020, it still isn't the largest and deadliest pandemic in history. That title is held by the Plague. This disease, also…
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1 author picked What Was the Plague? as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I like that this chapter book format works for middle-grade readers as well as high-low or ESL readers. The book layout was reader-friendly, and the illustrations were not scary or traumatizing. While I found this book a little less “exciting” compared to History Smashers, it delivered on the facts of the plague.
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