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''An American Plague ''is a 2003 non-fiction adolescent history by author Jim Murphy published by Clarion Books. ''An American Plague'' was one of the finalists in the 2003 National Book Award and was a 2004 Newbery Honor Book. ''An American Plague'' portrays the agony and pain this disease brought upon our American people marking it's place in history in order to never be forgotten. ==Plot== It is the year 1793 in Philadelphia. At this point Philadelphia is considered to be the largest city located in North America. The city is hit with an incurable and unknown disease. The author Jim Murphy describes a disease called the yellow fever and how it affected the residents of Philadelphia. In the novel he highlights the heroic roles and actions that the Philadelphia free blacks took in order to fight this deadly disease. He also didn't forget to let readers know about the constitutional crisis our first American president George Washington was facing that lead to him leaving the city of Philadelphia, and everything he owned and knew behind, because of this deadly disease. The cure for the disease was not found until centuries later.
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