Close to Home: A Story of the Polio Epidemic
- ISBN-10
- 0140360832
- ISBN-13
- 9780140360837
- Series
- Close to Home
- Category
- Poliomyelitis
- Pages
- 66
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1997
- Publisher
- Puffin
- Author
- Lydia Weaver
Description
In the summer of 1952, Betsy sees her vacation fun overshadowed by the spreading polio epidemic, while her mother and other scientists work frantically to develop a vaccine for the crippling disease.
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