A death-struck year / Makiia Lucier (2017 teen book, HS Nutmeg 2017 Lucier)
Determined to ride out the deadly Spanish influenza epic of 1918 in her home rather than in the quarantined boarding-school dorms of the Pacific Northwest, headstrong 17-year-old Cleo volunteers with the Red Cross and witnesses harrowing realities while falling in love with a handsome medical student.
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Teen Librarian Marisa’s Pick
Furthermore / by Tahereh Mafi (2016 children’s book, MDL Mafi)
Twelve-year-old Alice Queensmeadow, with the help of her friend Oliver, travels through the dangerous, magical land of Furthermore in order to rescue her missing father and prove her own magical abilities.