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Welsh, Sheila Kelly.
THE HOLDING ON NIGHT
McLean, Virginia : Cricket Media, 2018
IL K-3
ISBN 9781642624731
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Their teachers have dismissed them early with a warning.  Go straight home and don't stop anywhere. The flu has been going around and they must be careful. The year is 1918 and this flu is like none anyone had ever seen. Millions of people are affected and many are dying and there is no cure. When Anna gets home, she finds that the flu has hit home. Her baby sister is hot and cranky. Will the family escape the fate of many of their neighbors?

SUBJECTS:  Influenza Epidemic, 1918-1919 -- Fiction.
                        Families -- Fiction.


 
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