Saving the world : a novel
(Book)
Author
Published
Chapel Hill, NC : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2007.
ISBN
9781565125582, 1565125584
Lexile measure
920L
Status
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Location | Call Number | Status |
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Cicero Public Library - Stacks | ALVAREZ, JULIA | On Shelf |
Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult | FICTION ALVAREZ, J. | On Shelf |
Subjects
LC Subjects
AIDS (Disease) -- Patients -- Family relationships -- Fiction.
AIDS (Disease) -- Patients -- Fiction.
Balmis, Francisco Xavier de -- Fiction.
Expedición Marítima de la Vacuna -- (1803-1810) -- Fiction.
Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Married women -- Fiction.
Middle-aged women -- Fiction.
Novels.
Psychological fiction.
Smallpox -- Fiction.
Vaccination -- Fiction.
AIDS (Disease) -- Patients -- Fiction.
Balmis, Francisco Xavier de -- Fiction.
Expedición Marítima de la Vacuna -- (1803-1810) -- Fiction.
Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Married women -- Fiction.
Middle-aged women -- Fiction.
Novels.
Psychological fiction.
Smallpox -- Fiction.
Vaccination -- Fiction.
More Details
Published
Chapel Hill, NC : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2007.
Format
Book
Physical Desc
376 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
ISBN
9781565125582, 1565125584
Accelerated Reader
UG
Level 6.6, 22 Points
Level 6.6, 22 Points
Lexile measure
920
Notes
General Note
"A Shannon Ravenel book."
General Note
Reader's discussion guide included.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Description
From the Publisher: While Alma Huebert is researching a new novel, she finds her real story-and her salvation-in a little-known but staggering historical footnote: the Royal Expedition of the Vaccine. In 1803, Don Francisco Balmis embarked on a two-year sea voyage to rescue the New World from smallpox. Accompanying him were twenty-two orphan boys, acting as live carriers, and their guardian, Isabel Sendales y Gómez. As Alma digs deeper into Isabel's life, she finds her own power to commit an act as life-changing as Isabel's. In Saving the World, Julia Alvarez, author of perennial bestsellers, including How the García Girls Lost Their Accents and In the Time of the Butterflies, takes us into the worlds of "two women living two centuries apart [who] each face 'a crisis of the soul' when their fates are tied to idealistic men"-(Publishers Weekly).
Target Audience
920 L,Lexile
Study Program Information
Accelerated Reader/Renaissance Learning,UG,6.6,22.
Study Program Information
Accelerated Reader AR,UG,6.6,22,108887.
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Citations
APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Alvarez, J. (2007). Saving the world: a novel (First paperback edition.). Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Alvarez, Julia. 2007. Saving the World: A Novel. Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Alvarez, Julia. Saving the World: A Novel Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2007.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Alvarez, Julia. Saving the World: A Novel First paperback edition., Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2007.
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