Deadly by Julie Chibbaro – Description (Chibbaro, 2011). Have you ever wondered how or why certain people are afflicted with disease and death? Can you imagine yourself in 1906, New York City and death is everywhere? You don’t know what the cause is. People die for so many reasons while others remain perfectly healthy, even in the same household. The question Prudence Galewski wants to answer; how can it be stopped? Stuck in Mrs. Browning’s school for girls, she daydreams of getting a job, but one that has meaning. Girls are supposed to find a husband, be a typist, or work at the perfume counter at Macys. It is unheard of for girls to care about disease and death, cells and bone. Still, Prudence’s love for science abounds as she reads every
