by Cynthia DeFelice
Farrar Straus Giroux (1996)
Interest Level: grades 5+
Category: Historical Fiction
Type: Novel
Summary: In 1849, Tuberculosis, or consumption, rages through the countryside leaving Lucas Whitaker an orphan. Feeling guilty for not being able to save his mother's life, Lucas goes to work for Doc Beecher. Even the doctor is at a loss as to how to stop the disease from killing people. Is Lucas willing to try a voodoo cure to save lives or will he be able to find some other way to help the people in his community?
Online Connections:
1. Author's website: http://www.cynthiadefelice.com/
2. To learn more about Anthony van Leeuwenhoek, the Dutch tradesman who discovered bacteria, visit: http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/leeuwenhoek.html
Book Connections:
1. Matilda Bone by Karen Cushman
2. The Midwife's Apprentice by Karen Cushman
Keywords: Orphans, tuberculosis, consumption, superstition, apprentices, medicine, doctors, cleanliness, New England, apothecary
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