Stupeur

by Julie Chibbaro

1906, New York. Prudence Galewski s'ennuie dans la prestigieuse École de filles de Mrs Browning. Elle rêve de sciences et de découvertes. Portée par son ambition, elle trouve une place d'assistante dans un laboratoire. Son chemin croise alors celui de Mary Mallon et de l'épouvantable épidémie de fièvres typhoïdes que cette cuisinière irlandaise laisse sur son sillage, elle qui n'a jamais été malade de sa vieâ?¦ Comment pourrait-elle contaminer les familles pour qui elle travaille ? Retour sur une découverte invraisemblable à l'époque.

160 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2021

About the author

Julie Chibbaro is the award-winning author of three novels: Into the Dangerous World (Viking, 2015), a hybrid graphic/novel about a girl artist on the NY streets in 1984, Deadly (Simon & Schuster 2011, Scholastic 2012), a medical mystery about the hunt for Typhoid Mary in 1906, and Redemption (S&S 2004) a historical novel about a girl's unintended trip to the New World in 1524.

Into the Dangerous World has received a starred Publishers Weekly review, is a Junior Library Guild Selection, and is a Children's Book Council Notable Social Studies Book.

Deadly won the 2011 National Jewish Book Award, and was Top 10 on the American Library Association's Amelia Bloomer Project list. It was named a Bank Street Best Book, and an Outstanding Science Trade Book by the National Science Teachers Association. It is now part of many schools’ curriculum.

Julie Chibbaro's first book, Redemption (Simon & Schuster 2004), an epic tale of love, kidnapping, and white Indians, won the 2005 American Book Award.