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“With its crumbling Starbucks and rusting theme parks, The Eleventh Plague hits disturbingly close to home, vividly depicting a world that has nose-dived into a futuristic nightmare. Fifteen-year-old Stephen Quinn struggles to define his rules of survival in Jeff Hirsch’s excellent, taut debut... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Stephen Quinn: 15 year old boy, main character. Stephen's world becomes something he no longer recognizes after the death of his grandfather and parents within a short amount of time. He joins a community of survivors, and begins to feel like he has found a home for the first time in his life, until trouble finds him again.
- Jenny Green: A Chinese girl. Fierce and deadly.
- Dad: Steven Quinn's Dad.
- Grandpa: a hard heated man but wise and strong.
- Jackson: Add a description of this character.
- Marcus
- Derrick
- Mr. Tuttle
- Sam
- Martin
- Violet
- Steve
- Caleb Henry
- Will Henry
- Claudia
- Wendy
- Mr. Simms
- Carrie
- Stan
- Leonard
- John Carter
Quotes edit
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“It was no plague. It was a blessing. Surviving it, that's the real plague. But soon it'll just be . . . silence.”
Grandpa
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“The times we live in, Mr. Quinn, are teetering between the chaos behind us — an infancy made up of smoke and terror and withering plague — and what adulthood lies ahead for us. Wisdom? Peace? Oblivion? Whatever it is, to get there we must let go of the past. It is dead and gone. It will never return and it cannot be changed. All we have now is one another and whatever new thing we make together.”
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Everybody just called it P11 or the Eleventh Plague. It was nothing more than a souped-up strain of the flu, but it ate through the country like wildfire, infecting and then killing nearly everyone it touched.
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First Sentence edit
I was sitting at the edge of the clearing, trying not to stare at the body on the ground in front of me.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Jeff Hirsch (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Scholastic Press
Country: USA
Publication Date: September 1, 2011
ISBN: 0545290147
Page Count: 304
Publisher: Scholastic Press
Country: USA
Publication Date: September 1, 2011
ISBN: 0545290147
Page Count: 304
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