Maria and the Plague: A Black Death Survival Story (Girls Survive)

by Natasha Deen (Author) Francesca Ficorilli (Illustrator)

Reading Level: 4^th − 5^th Grade

Years of bad weather and natural disasters have choked Italy's food supply, and the people of Florence are dying of starvation. Breadlines are battlegrounds, and young Maria has to fight for her family's every loaf. Adding to the misery, the Black Plague is rapidly spreading through the country, killing everyone in its path. Maria has already lost her mother and sister. Will she be strong enough to save the rest of her family before it's too late?

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Natasha Deen

Natasha Deen loves stories: exciting ones, scary ones and, especially, funny ones! As a kid of two countries (Guyana and Canada), she feels especially lucky because she gets a double dose of stories. Natasha is the author of many books, including the Lark Ba Detective series in the Orca Echoes line, several titles in the Orca Soundings line and In the Key of Nira Ghani, which won the Amy Mathers Teen Book Award and was nominated for the Red Maple Award. Natasha lives in Edmonton.

Classification

Fiction

ISBN-13

9781515882237

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Guided Reading Level

Publisher

Stone Arch Books

Publication date

January 20, 2021

Series

Girls Survive

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Library of Congress categories

History
Families
Family life
Italy
Survival
Middle Ages
14th century
Plague
Black death