Description
Description
A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year A Chicago Public Library Best Kids' Book of the Year A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year
From New York Times bestselling author Lindsey Fitzharris, a riveting middle grade nonfiction book about medicine's most fascinating failures and dead ends.
About the Author
About the Author
Lindsey Fitzharris is a New York Times bestselling author of The Butchering Art and The Facemaker, and the co-author of Plague-Busters! She holds a Ph.D. in the history of science and medicine from Oxford University, and regularly writes for major publications. She is also the writer and host of the Smithsonian TV series The Curious Life and Death of....
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Critical Reviews
Critical Reviews
"* Macabre, madcap, and surprisingly wholesome in its positivity." --Kirkus Reviews, starred review
"* An informative and entertaining dive into the successes and failures of medical history." --School Library Journal, starred review "Alternates between informative, sensational, irreverent, and tongue-in-cheek (sometimes literally), resulting in engaging and engrossing reading. . . . Good luck keeping this gross one on library shelves once kids hear about it." --Booklist "* Plague-Busters! is chock full of awesomely appalling medical history that is sure to delight audiences, and possibly even spark interest for some future pathologists." --Shelf Awareness, starred review, on PLAGUE-BUSTERS! "* Engaging, informative, but also gross." --SLJ Reviews, starred review, on PLAGUE-BUSTERS! "Fans of Albee's Poison will feel right at home with this darkly comedic piece of nonfiction." --The Horn Book, on PLAGUE-BUSTERS! "A lively illustration of the perils of illness in the olden days." --Kirkus Reviews, on PLAGUE-BUSTERS! "An entertaining, accessible, and satisfyingly disgusting history of six diseases . . . an equally worthy choice for researchers and browsing pathologists." --Booklist, on PLAGUE-BUSTERS! "* Meticulously researched and compulsively readable." --Publishers Weekly (starred review), on THE FACEMAKER "* An excellent biography of a genuine miracle worker." --Kirkus Reviews (starred review), on THE FACEMAKER "This book is riveting. It is gruesome but it is also uplifting . . . What a triumph." --Mary Roach, author of FUZZ and STIFF, on THE FACEMAKER "Atmospheric . . . The story it tells is one of abiding fascination." --Jennifer Senior, The New York Times, on THE BUTCHERING ART
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