Deadly Author:Julie Chibbaro A mysterious outbreak of typhoid fever is sweeping New York. Could the city's future rest with its most unlikely scientist? — Every week more people fall ill, and despite thorough investigation, there's no end in sight. It's not until sixteen-year-old Prudence Galewski takes a job as an assistant in a laboratory that the evidence begi... more »ns to fall into place. Only one person has worked in every home the fever has ravaged: Mary Mallon, an Irish immigrant. Is the accusation against her an act of discrimination or the first clue in a scientific discovery?
Prudence is determined to find out. In a time when science is for men, she'll have to prove to the city and herself that she can help solve one of the greatest medical mysteries of the twentieth century.« less