Monday, February 22, 2010

Enemy At the Gate by Phillipa Werry, New Zealand author and NZ Post Book Award Winner


It's December 1936 when the first polio cases are suspected. Soon a polio epidemic is sweeping the country. Schools are closed, swimming pools and movie theatres banned to children, and travel is restricted. Tom is the best runner in the school, but you can't outrun polio, and nobody knows when it will strike next.

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