Weaver, Lydia.

Close to home : a story of the polio epidemic / by Lydia Weaver ; illustrated by Aileen Arrington. - New York : Puffin, 1997, c1993. - 55 p. : ill. ; 20 cm. - Once upon America .

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In the summer of 1952, Betsy sees her vacation fun overshadowed by the spreading polio epidemic, while her mother and other scientists work frantically to develop a vaccine for the crippling disease.

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Poliomyelitis--Fiction.
Poliomyelitis--Fiction

PZ7.W3585 / Cl 1997

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