Great Trouble: A Mystery of London, the Blue Death, and a Boy Called Eel

The Great Trouble: A Mystery of London, the Blue Death, and a Boy Called Eel | Deborah Hopkinson

I love it when the books I‘m reading intersect. Yesterday while listening to The Great Trouble, set in London in 1854, the main character mentioned North and South, my current #PemberLittens read. 📚 😁

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megnews I love when that happens! 2y

Suet624 Ooohhh, spooky. 2y

inthegreensandblues That's the best! 2y

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Daisey

The Great Trouble: A Mystery of London, the Blue Death, and a Boy Called Eel | Deborah Hopkinson

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I first saw this book a couple years ago at a Scholastic book fair. However, neither the cover nor the synopsis seemed like an easy sell for my students, so I didn‘t buy it. Today I listened and was fascinated by this story of the 1854 Broad Street cholera epidemic and Dr John Snow, who I knew a bit about from previous reading. I thought the intertwining of Snow‘s real research with the fictional character of Eel was fantastic.

Daisey @megnews @sblbooks #MiddleGrade #HistoricalFiction #audiobook #MiddleGradeMarchThroughTime 1854 (edited) 2y

megnews Sounds interesting. I‘ve never heard of the blue death. 2y

Kangaj1 I read this with my kids when they were younger and I still remember it! 2y

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Daisey @megnews I don‘t know that I‘ve ever heard cholera called the blue death before either, even though I had read about this specific epidemic in London. 2y

sblbooks This one is next up for me. Great minds think alike. 2y

Daisey @sblbooks I‘ll look forward to seeing your review! 2y

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sblbooks

The Great Trouble: A Mystery of London, the Blue Death, and a Boy Called Eel | Deborah Hopkinson

This is the last stack! I need your #opinion. What do you like? Thanks for all your help! I'm looking forward to next month. #MiddleGradeMay #juvenilefiction #juvenilenonfiction

Addison_Reads I haven't read any of these, but I'm going to add some to my TBR. 😁 5y

sblbooks @Addison_Reads I hope to eventually read all these books. My TBR stack is out of control. So many books so little time ☺📚 5y

megnews Journey of Little Charlie and Hunger we‘re both good. 5y

toofondofbooks From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler is a classic good read 5y

SaturnDoo I have read a lot of the books from your 6 groups. Some really good some not so good.❤❤ 5y

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missjenniferlowe

Great Trouble: A Mystery of London, the Blue Death, and a Boy Called Eel | Deborah Hopkinson

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As I was reading, I felt the book reminded me a lot of The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson, which was amazing. At the end, the author said she based her book on his. While this was a totally solid read, and a great intro to cholera for kids (which is a really weird idea), I think I wiuld have enjoyed this more if I'd read it first. Still, a really good book.

Bette I enjoyed this, have not read The Ghost Map and 👍🐘😀 8y

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missjenniferlowe

Great Trouble: A Mystery of London, the Blue Death, and a Boy Called Eel | Deborah Hopkinson

Reading at the charging station and waiting for my flight to Pittsburgh for a conference. The glamorous life of a librarian!

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elroya

Great Trouble: A Mystery of London, the Blue Death, and a Boy Called Eel | Deborah Hopkinson

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Great historical fiction! Characters you care about, and interesting to see how we have figured out how diseases are really contracted vs. superstition believed for hundreds of years

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