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Yesterday's Dead

di Pat Bourke

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Thirteen-year-old Meredith yearns to become a teacher but must help support her family, so she travels to the city to work as kitchen help in a doctor's household. Conflicts with the butler, and with Maggie, the doctor's spoiled thirteen-year-old daughter, threaten her job from the start. As Spanish flu sweeps the world and reaches their city, members of the household fall ill one by one. Only Meredith, Maggie and Jack, Maggie's handsome older brother, are left to care for them. Every day the newspaper's list of yesterday's dead adds to Meredith's growing fear. Forced to cope, Meredith finds a strength and maturity beyond her years and shows herself to be a true hero despite her lowly station in the household. As Meredith wrestles with questions of duty and responsibility, she opens the door to a future that she thought had been closed forever.… (altro)

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This was a YA novel set with the Spanish Flu raging in canada as the backdrop. A good few hours' read. (

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kwskultety | Jul 4, 2023 |

Thank you Goodreads First Reads giveaway for this book!

Yesterday's Dead was a fast, good read packed with good characters, story development, and some early 20th century flu dread. Bourke's language is clean and crisp and her characters are three-dimensional. The whole kitchen set up reminded me a bit of Downton Abbey's Daisy and Mrs.Potts and the rich-house-turned-hospital added to that effect. I think that the story has a lot for the age group it is aiming for (10-13, the back says): responsibility, learning to move through anger and frustration, and death. All in all, recommended for a few hours of good story telling. (

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bluepigeon | Dec 15, 2013 |

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Meredith, a servant in a doctor's household in Toronto, experiences the ravages of the Spanish influenza in that city. I very much enjoyed this book, particularly as I haven't read much fiction about the 1918 flu pandemic. I found myself wanting more historical detail, but the amount presented is probably appropriate for the intended age group. The characters are somewhat stock characters, but the historical context makes up for the relative lack of character development. (

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casvelyn | Apr 22, 2012 |

"...I finished this book in one night, and again, I definitely liked it. The only other book I really remember reading that mentions the Spanish Influenza was Twilight, when Edward explains to Bella about the end of his human life. Bourke gives us a lot more to go on, as far as better understanding the extent of what this illness meant for the people in the midst of the outbreak. I've had the flu before, but this sounds a bit more awful, I think. I think I would have really enjoyed this book if I'd read it when I was younger, as well; I've always liked historical fiction, and with Meredith's story, Bourke covers a topic that isn't touched on as much for the main plot in a novel, so that's always welcome, I think."

For full review, please visit me at Here Be Bookwyrms on Blogger:

http://herebebookwyrms.blogspot.com/2012/04/yesterdays-dead.html (

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here.be.bookwyrms | Apr 21, 2012 |

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Young Meredith leaves home at the tender age of thirteen to be a maid for a wealthy doctor's family in 1918. With World War I raging overseas, soon Meredith and her friends will be battling for their own lives as the Spanish Flu epidemic wreaks devastation on everyone, regardless of class or age.

When I requested this book from LibraryThing Early Reviewers I didn't realize it was for the age set of 10-13, but it was still a very enjoyable read, and I think it will get younger readers interested in the Spanish Flu epidemic, as the descriptions of the disease were intense but not too gruesome.

Meredith's interactions with the staff of the doctor's house and the friends she makes were very well written, and the author did a good job of portraying a courageous and endearing young heroine in Meredith. (

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Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People (Lista breve – 2013)

IODE Violet Downey Book Award (Finalista – 2013)

Manitoba Young Reader’s Choice Award (Candidato – 2014)

Silver Birch Fiction Award (Candidato – Narrativa – 2014)

The Willow Awards (Finalista – Snow Willow – 2014)

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Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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Influenza pandemic (1918)

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Meredith half walked, half ran along the wide hallway of Union Station.

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Thirteen-year-old Meredith yearns to become a teacher but must help support her family, so she travels to the city to work as kitchen help in a doctor's household. Conflicts with the butler, and with Maggie, the doctor's spoiled thirteen-year-old daughter, threaten her job from the start. As Spanish flu sweeps the world and reaches their city, members of the household fall ill one by one. Only Meredith, Maggie and Jack, Maggie's handsome older brother, are left to care for them. Every day the newspaper's list of yesterday's dead adds to Meredith's growing fear. Forced to cope, Meredith finds a strength and maturity beyond her years and shows herself to be a true hero despite her lowly station in the household. As Meredith wrestles with questions of duty and responsibility, she opens the door to a future that she thought had been closed forever.

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