Purple Death Kate DiCamillo BELOVED AUTHOR: Adam Rex books

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“Both gloriously expansive and goofy—in short

he creates a world of light and possibility

This is the house with nobody in it

leaving behind the cotton fields and distant Blue Ridge mountains

Purple Death Kate DiCamillo BELOVED AUTHOR: Adam Rex booksIt was the worst epidemic in this country's history, and the search for its cause is still one of science's most urgent quests. It was 1918, the last year of World War 1. Thousands of men lived in the crowded army training camps that were scattered all across the United States. That spring, a strange flu struck the soldiers at a camp in the Midwest. Healthy young men went to the hospital complaining of sore throats and fevers. Within hours they had