· Edward Bloor has created a searing portrait of a place and a family and a boy who survive a harrowing plague year, and become stronger than before. PUBLISHERS WEEKLY Bloor (London Calling) revisits his days teaching high school English to find parallels between Daniel Defoe's classic about the bubonic plague in 17th-century London and a (real) 5/5(5). A Plague Year: Author: Edward Bloor: Edition: reprint: Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, ISBN: , Length: pages: SubjectsAuthor: Edward Bloor. A Plague Year had so much potential to be a powerful realistic story of a poor mining town destroyed by meth. I was hoping for a rural YA version of the must read classic David Simon book The Corner. (The book that became the basis of the HBO series The Wire.)/5(18).
Find many great new used options and get the best deals for A Plague Year by Edward Bloor (, Trade Paperback) at the best online prices at eBay! Free shipping for many products! Facts about Edward Bloor 9: A Plague Year. In , A Plague Year earned the selection for Pennsylvania Young Readers Choice Award. Facts about Edward Bloor other books. Story Time was nominated for Best Young Adult Novel for Edgar Award in In , Crusader made into the Young Adults' Choices Best of the Rest. A Plague Year by Edward Bloor: Order: USA Can; Knopf, () Hardcover. Read an Excerpt Reviewed by Lyn Seippel: I n rural Pennsylvania, a financially depressed coal mining town is beginning to feel the devastation of a plague. Sudafed and cleaning supplies are beginning to disappear from supermarket shelves and home labs are being set up.
Biography. Bloor was born in Trenton, New Jersey, son of Edward Bloor and Mary Cowley. Bloor graduated from Notre Dame High School in ; the school inducted him into its hall of fame in He received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Fordham University in Married Pamela Dixon (a teacher), August 4, Father to a daughter and a son. A Plague Year-Edward Bloor It's and zombies have taken over Tom's town. Meth zombies. The drug rips through Blackwater, PA, with a ferocity and a velocity that overwhelms everyone. It starts small, with petty thefts of cleaning supplies and Sudafed from the supermarket where Tom works. But by year's end there will be ruined, hollow people on. In Edward Bloor’s fictional novel (published 9/13/11), is about a 14 year-old boy, Tom Coleman, and his journal of the modern day plague in Blackwater, Pennsylvania. The book starts off in , with Tom in 9th grade at a local high school. Suddenly everything changes with the events of 9/
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