This title focuses on the Black Death and gives information related to its symptoms, causes, and global impact. This hi-lo title is complete with gripping and historical photographs, simple text, glossary, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards.--

In 1349, one small town in Germany disappeared and has never been resettled. Tom, a contemporary historian, and his theoretical physicist girlfriend Sharon, become interested. Tom indeed becomes obsessed. By all logic, the town should have survived, but it didn't and that violates everything Tom knows about history. What's was special about Eifelheim that it utterly disappeared more than 600 years ago? Father Deitrich is the village priest of Oberhochwald,...

Soon after she, her mother, and her younger brother move into an old house on what was once known as Beggarsgate, Emily begins to have terrifyingly real glimpses of scenes of 17th century London devastated by the plague.

"The streets were littered with rats scurrying over dead and dying bodies. Fear spread through the city of London just as fast as the plague, killing almost a quarter of the city's population by the end of 1666. Follow along with the true story of a doomed city in the midst of a deadly epidemic. Then, review what you've learned with a recap timeline and a quick quiz to check how much doomed history you remember"--

While the coronavirus COVID-19 changed the world in 2020, it still isn't the largest and deadliest pandemic in history. That title is held by the Plague.--

Three men live and fall in love in Provence during three very different times of crisis: the fall of the Roman Empire, the Black Death and World War II. There problems, however, are strikingly similar

As the Black Death decimates Europe in 1348, the Church enlists a knight to investigate rumors of a village that the plague has not touched and where the dead are brought back to life.

Describes the 1347-1351 outbreak of plague in Europe, known as the Black Death, which killed one out of three people and changed the course of European history.

In medieval Sweden a knight returns from war only to find a ravaged homeland. He meets up with a group of travelling players and eventually confronts the embodiment of death, with whom he engages in a game of chess for his life. The knight and Death play as a cultural turmoil envelops the people around them as they try, in different ways, to deal with the upheaval the plague has caused.

Traces the history of the plague from ancient times to today, focusing on the Black Death and its aftermath in the Middle Ages. Also discusses causes and cures of the disease.