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"Alice is a young girl growing up in London in 1665. She lives a fairly ordinary life with her father and her aunt but when the plague sweeps through the city everything changes. Alice must go from day to day wondering if she and her family will fall victim to the terrible disease."
Rebecca Herman, Resident Scholar
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Tone of book?
- upbeat
Time/era of story
- 17th century
Is this an adult or child's book?
- Age 11-14
War/Revolt/Disaster on civilians
Yes
Conflict:
- Environmental Disaster
Main Character
Gender
- Female
Profession/status:
- homemaker
Age:
- a teen
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Ethnicity/Nationality
- British
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
Main Adversary
Identity:
- natural phenomena
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- throughout most of the book.
Setting
How much descriptions of surroundings?
- 7 ()
Europe
Yes
European country:
- England/UK
City?
Yes
City:
- London
- dirty, grimy (like New York)
Style
Person
- mostly 3rd
Accounts of torture and death?
- generic/vague references to death/punishment
Unusual Style:
- written like a journal/diary/letters
Amount of dialog
- significantly more descript than dialog
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