Books : Path of the Pale Horse
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by: Paul Fleischman
Binding: Paperback
EAN: 9780064404426
ISBN: 0064404420
Label: HarperCollins Publishers
Manufacturer: HarperCollins Publishers
Number Of Items: 1
Publication Date: 1992-05
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Reading Level: Young Adult
Sales Rank: 1722724
Studio: HarperCollins Publishers
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Product Description:
Lep, an apprentice to a doctor, helps his master take care of yellow fever victims in Philadelphia during the epidemic of 1793.
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Rating:  - HEALING ARTS AND FRAUD IN YOUNG AMERICA
Fourteen-year-old Lep is apprenticed to a village doctor, steadfastly following his father's dying dream for his son. However news arrives from Philadelphia that the city has been stricken with Yellow Fever, so Lep takes off to rescue his sister visiting there. His faith in medicine and his ability as a healer are put to the test in the infectious city. The citizens do not realzie the role of mosquitoes in spreading this deadly disease; thus they fall victim to quacks and their own unscrupulous ... Read More
Rating:  - Very good in-depth book about a boy who gets lost in Philly.
This was a very good book about a boy who is an apprientice, who goes to philly to get his sister during a spell of the Yellow Fever. Along the way he gets seperated from his master, can't find him, and also can't find his sister
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