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	Lucier, Makiia. A DEATH-STRUCK YEAR New York : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014 IL YA ISBN 0544164504
Click on the book to read Amazon reviews	It is 1918 and the United States is involved in the First World War.  In Portland, Oregon Cleo and her family believe they are too far west to be affected by the Spanish flu that is striking people on the east coast.   They have heard about the devastation that this disease has played in Europe and in the soldiers returning from war.  Cleo is told to stay at her boarding school until her family returns but she decides that she will be better off at home than stuck at school so she sneaks off.  Within one day, the influenza epidemic has found it's way to Portland and that 200 people are affected.  At home, she learns that the Red Cross is looking for volunteers to help with the influenza epidemic.  She musters up her courage and volunteers to help by going door to door to find those too sick to ask for help.  This sounds like a noble cause until reality hits.
	SUBJECTS:       Influenza Epidemic, 1918-1919 -- Fiction.                         Portland (Or.) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.

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