Author: Pat Bourke
Publisher: Second Story Press
Link: Silver Birch
Meredith struggles to cope during the Spanish Flu epidemic of 1918... Thirteen-year-old Meredith yearns to become a teacher but must leave school to help support her family. To find the best paying job for a young girl of her class, she travels to the city to work as household help in a doctor’s home. From the start, her life is made difficult by the cantankerous and prickly butler, and confrontations with Maggie, the doctor’s spoiled thirteen-year-old daughter. As the deadly Spanish Flu sweeps across the city, members of the household fall ill one by one. With the doctor working night and day at the hospital, only Meredith, Maggie, and Jack, Maggie's handsome older brother, are left to care for them. Every day the newspapers’ lists of “Yesterday’s Dead” add to Meredith’s growing fears. When Jack becomes gravely ill, Meredith must stop fighting with Maggie so they can work together to save him. As Meredith wrestles with questions of duty and responsibility, she opens the door to a future that she thought had been closed forever.
Yesterday’s DEAD is great and interesting to read because I personally like how the book was about something that actually happened but a made up girl (Meredith) was the main character and she was a strong person the readers could connect to. Also, I liked how there was affections going on between Meredith and Tommy, that made Meredith happy and excited.
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This book was amazing because whenever there was a solution to one problem, another problem always popped up. Also, this book was amazing because Meredith stayed strong through the Spanish flu and was not scared.
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Yesterday's dead was a great book that had many ups and downs. The book had captured the time period perfectly. I didn't really like the way they explained the setting of the story. I would of liked if the author had explained the setting more so that it would be easier to understand.
ReplyDeleteThis book Yesterday's Dead by Pat Bourke was a very interesting book that had played with my emotions. While reading tis book I enjoyed the time frame it took place in, and how the character Meredith dealed with what was going on. The only thing I didn't love about this book was the beginning because it didn't really explain what was happening so I had trouble understanding it.
ReplyDeleteI thought yesterdays dead was an interesting book. The first part, I thought, was kind of slow, but I sometimes enjoy slow paced books. Parts I did not understand, but my favourite part of the book was when their was a party going on and Mrs. Butters was sick. It shows how much work servants have to do, and how poorly they were treated. It also gives you a history lesson on how the common flu today was so deadly then. I give this book a 6 out of 10.
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