Quarantine / Philippa Werry.

By:

Werry, Philippa, 1958- [author.]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: My New Zealand storyPublication details: Auckland : Scholastic New Zealand Limited, 2022. Description: 279 pages : illustrations ; 20 cmISBN:

9781775437604
1775437604

Uniform titles:

Enemy at the gate

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Genre/Form:

DDC classification:

NZ823.2 23

LOC classification:

NZ823.2

Summary: "''Being in quarantine sounds like being in prison'', I said, shivering. Lily nodded.'' A bit like that. Except that the prison is your own home''. It might sound familiar in 2021, but this is New Zealand in 1936-37. The disease is infantile paralysis, or polio, and nobody knows where it will strike next. When even the adults are afraid, Tom finds refuge in his dream-to run in the Olympics like his hero, Olympic champion Jack Lovelock"--Provided by publisher.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Young Adult	Waimate Young Adult Fiction	Children &Young Adults Section	WERR (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		W00005036

Novel for children.

"''Being in quarantine sounds like being in prison'', I said, shivering. Lily nodded.'' A bit like that. Except that the prison is your own home''. It might sound familiar in 2021, but this is New Zealand in 1936-37. The disease is infantile paralysis, or polio, and nobody knows where it will strike next. When even the adults are afraid, Tom finds refuge in his dream-to run in the Olympics like his hero, Olympic champion Jack Lovelock"--Provided by publisher.

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