Terrible Typhoid Mary: A True Story of the Deadliest Cook in America
- ISBN-10
- 0544313674
- ISBN-13
- 9780544313675
- Category
- Juvenile Nonfiction
- Pages
- 240
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2015-08-04
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Author
- Susan Campbell Bartoletti
Description
In a riveting biography that reads like a crime novel, Sibert Medalist and Newbery-Honor winner Susan Campbell Bartoletti uncovers the true story of Mary Mallon, a.k.a. Typhoid Mary, one of the most notorious and misunderstood women in American history.
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