Plague Land
Plague Land

Author: Alex Scarrow

Publisher: Macmillan Children's Books

Published: 2018-07-31

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 1760782076

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It happened within a week . . . Leon and his younger sister, Grace, have recently moved to London from New York and are struggling to settle into their new school, when rumours of an unidentified virus in Africa begin to fill the news. Within a week the virus hits London. The siblings witness people turning to liquid before their eyes, and they run for their lives. A month after touching Earth's atmosphere, the virus has assimilated the world's biomass. But the virus isn't their only enemy, and survival is just the first step. Plague Land is the explosive first novel in the Remade trilogy from the bestselling and award-winning author of TimeRiders, Alex Scarrow. 'A high-impact horrific thriller that will keep readers on the edge of their seat and begging for the next installment.' School Library Journal 'Terror, anxiety, and anticipation will flow rapidly through the veins of readers as they piece together clues...in this fast-paced horror' The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books

Plague Land: Reborn
Plague Land: Reborn

Author: Alex Scarrow

Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.

Published: 2018-09-04

Total Pages: 286

ISBN-13: 1492660248

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They thought the plague was dead. They were wrong. Two years ago, a virus hit London, killing thousands of people and driving the rest into hiding. But Leon has somehow survived, making it through two harsh winters. Now he's living on the fragile hope that the freezing snow and ice of the English climate wiped out the virus for good. Word even reaches Leon of a rescue boat on its way. But all is not as safe as it seems. The virus has been busy... Perfect for those looking for: Pandemic fiction A thrilling plague book series Post-apocalyptic fiction Stories of survival in the wake of the apocalypse Books for teen boys The complete Plague Land series: Plague Land Plague Land: Reborn Plague Land: No Escape Praise for Plague Land: "A thrilling family survival story, a clinical study of a fictional pathogen, body horror, and an action-packed dystopian narrative." —Booklist "Terror, anxiety, and anticipation will flow rapidly through the veins of readers as they piece together clues...in this fast-paced horror." —The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books "A high-impact horrific thriller that will keep readers on the edge of their seat and begging for the next installment." —School Library Journal

Plague World
Plague World

Author: Alex Scarrow

Publisher: Pan Macmillan

Published: 2018-07-26

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 1509811273

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It has a plan . . . Leon is stuck in England. Grace is on her way to New Zealand and Freya to the 'New United States' in Cuba. The virus has assimilated all of humanity except for these three communities and now it is prepared to talk with them. How they each choose to respond to the virus, will ultimately decide their fate in Plague World, the apocalyptic finale to the Remade trilogy from bestselling author of the TimeRiders series, Alex Scarrow.

Plague Land
Plague Land

Author: S. D. Sykes

Publisher: Hodder Paperbacks

Published: 2015-05-21

Total Pages: 400

ISBN-13: 9781444785784

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Oswald de Lacy was never meant to be the Lord of Somerhill Manor. Despatched to a monastery at the age of seven, sent back at seventeen when his father and two older brothers are killed by thePlague, Oswald has no experience of running an estate. He finds the years of pestilence and neglect have changed the old place dramatically, not to mention the attitude of the surviving peasants. Yet some things never change. Oswald's mother remains the powerful matriarch of the family, and his sister Clemence simmers in the background, dangerous and unmarried. Before he can do anything, Oswald is confronted by the shocking death of a young woman, Alison Starvecrow. The ambitious village priest claims that Alison was killed by a band of demonic dog-headed men. Oswald is certain this is nonsense, but proving it - by finding the real murderer - is quite a different matter. Every step he takes seems to lead Oswald deeper into a dark maze of political intrigue, family secrets and violent strife. And then the body of another girl is found. SD Sykes brilliantly evokes the landscape and people of medieval Kent in this thrillingly suspenseful debut.

Plague Land
Plague Land

Author: S. D. Sykes

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2015-02-15

Total Pages: 366

ISBN-13: 1605987387

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In this chilling historical mystery, young girls go missing from a medieval English village and Lord Oswald de Lacy must find the killer before tragedy strikes again. Oswald de Lacy was never meant to be the Lord of Somerhill Manor. Despatched to a monastery at the age of seven, sent back at seventeen when his father and two older brothers are killed by the Plague, Oswald has no experience of running an estate. He finds the years of pestilence and neglect have changed the old place dramatically, not to mention the attitude of the surviving peasants. Yet some things never change. Oswald's mother remains the powerful matriarch of the family, and his sister Clemence simmers in the background, dangerous and unmarried. Before he can do anything, Oswald is confronted by the shocking death of a young woman, Alison Starvecrow. The ambitious village priest claims that Alison was killed by a band of demonic dog-headed men. Oswald is certain this is nonsense, but proving it—by finding the real murderer—is quite a different matter. Every step he takes seems to lead Oswald deeper into a dark maze of political intrigue, family secrets and violent strife. And then the body of another girl is found. Sarah Sykes brilliantly evokes the landscape and people of medieval Kent in this thrillingly suspenseful debut.

A Land Remembered
A Land Remembered

Author: Patrick D Smith

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2012-10-01

Total Pages: 286

ISBN-13: 1561645826

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A Land Remembered has become Florida's favorite novel. Now this Student Edition in two volumes makes this rich, rugged story of the American pioneer spirit more accessible to young readers. Patrick Smith tells of three generations of the MacIveys, a Florida family battling the hardships of the frontier. The story opens in 1858, when Tobias and Emma MacIvey arrive in the Florida wilderness with their son, Zech, to start a new life, and ends in 1968 with Solomon MacIvey, who realizes that his wealth has not been worth the cost to the land. Between is a sweeping story rich in Florida history with a cast of memorable characters who battle wild animals, rustlers, Confederate deserters, mosquitoes, starvation, hurricanes, and freezes to carve a kingdom out of the Florida swamp. In this volume, meet young Zech MacIvey, who learns to ride like the wind through the Florida scrub on Ishmael, his marshtackie horse, his dogs, Nip and Tuck, at this side. His parents, Tobias and Emma, scratch a living from the land, gathering wild cows from the swamp and herding them across the state to market. Zech learns the ways of the land from the Seminoles, with whom his life becomes entwined as he grows into manhood. Next in series > > See all of the books in this series

The Eleventh Plague
The Eleventh Plague

Author: Jeff Hirsch

Publisher: Scholastic Inc.

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 0545290147

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Twenty years after the wars that followed The Collapse, 15-year-old Stephen, his father, and grandfather travel post-Collapse America scavenging. But when his grandfather dies and his father decides to risk everything to save the lives of two strangers, Stephen's life is turned upside down.

Plague Nation
Plague Nation

Author: Alex Scarrow

Publisher: Pan Macmillan

Published: 2018-07-26

Total Pages: 416

ISBN-13: 1509897186

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Survival was just the start of it . . . Eighteen months have passed since the events of Plague Land. Leon and Freya have seen no sign of the virus, clinging on to the hope that two hard winters just may have killed it off. When news of a rescue ship arriving off the coast comes in, the pair are on the move once again. But all is not as safe as it seems. The virus has been busy, it has learned and evolved. And now, it is reborn. Plague Nation is the explosive second book in the Remade trilogy, by the bestselling author of the TimeRiders series, Alex Scarrow. Continue the horror-thriller series with Plague World. This book was previously published in paperback as Reborn.

Plague Year
Plague Year

Author: Jeff Carlson

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2007-07-31

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 1440634211

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Read Jeff Carlson's blogs and other content on the Penguin Community. View our feature on Jeff Carlson's Plague Year.The nanotechnology was designed to fight cancer. Instead, it evolved into the Machine Plague, killing nearly five billion people and changing life on Earth forever. The nanotech has one weakness: it self-destructs at altitudes above ten thousand feet. Those few who've managed to escape the plague struggle to stay alive on the highest mountains, but time is running out-there is famine and war, and the environment is crashing worldwide. Humanity's last hope lies with a top nanotech researcher aboard the International Space Station-and with a small group of survivors in California who risk a daring journey below the death line...

A Plague of Paradoxes
A Plague of Paradoxes

Author: Philip Setel

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 9780226748856

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Presents an extended case study of the 20th-century AIDS epidemic and the cultural circumstances from which it emerged. The book brings together anthropology, demography and epidemiology to explain how the Chagga people of Tanzania in Africa experience AIDS.