The Great Trouble by Deborah Hopkinson
The Great Trouble: A Mystery of London, the Blue Death, and a Boy Called Eel by Deborah Hopkinson is an engrossing middle grade historical/medical mystery novel. Historical and medical mystery novel, you ask? Yes. Set in mid-nineteenth century London, this story uses a Dickens-esque storyline and atmosphere to deliver a story about a very real-life happening–the Broad Street … [Read more…]