Theme+-+Pandemics+etc.

 =**Titles relating to pandemics, viruses, etc. **=

//The Tomorrow Code // by Brian Falkner. "A thrilling apocalyptic sci-fi adventure story involving a race against time to prevent a deadly viral contamination that threatens the end of all life on Earth. When Tane and Rebecca receive digital messages warning of the impending disaster, there is a chance to alleviate the threat. As they piece the clues together, they discover that the messages are being sent by their future selves, and they must stop The Chimera Project - a devastating apocalyptic plague - from being released. But they soon discover that changing the past in order to protect the future will be more difficult than they first thought. As a strange white cloud begins to move across New Zealand - and people start disappearing - Tane and Rebecca find that, not only may they be too late, but it may be impossible to stop at all. The cloud is made up of antibodies designed to attack human beings and has been created by Mother Nature herself as an antidote to the destructive human race. As the mist devours everyone and everything in its wake, Tane and Rebecca realize there is no way out - this plague is going to destroy the earth and their only hope is to take refuge from impending doom. As the end of the world begins, Tane stumbles on a way to prevent this from happening - they will send new messages to themselves from the future and change the course of history. Only this time they will get it right The Tomorrow Code is an action packed sci-fi time-travel adventure set in New Zealand and is full of danger & excitement and will appeal to teenagers. It also explores contemporary issues like the environment, overconsumption, the misuse of technology and biological warfare and presents complex scientific and philosophical issues in an accessible way that kids will find both fascinating and thrilling."--Provided by publisher.
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//Titanic 2020 // by Colin Bateman. ".....with a mysterious, incurable disease rapidly infecting the population, being at sea seems the safest place...'

//Peeps // by Scott Westerfeld is a very interesting and engaging book, half fiction, half non-fiction. It delves convincingly into the world of parasites, virus and vampires.

//I am legend // by Richard Matheson

//Gone // by Michael Grant

//When the War came home // by Sarah Ell. It is November, 1918, the end of the First World War and an epidemic of influenza is sweeping Auckland. Jimmy K's father is "missing in action". Now his mother has taken his younger brothers and sisters away to the country and 13 year-old Jimmy is left with his uncle to face the horrors of the epidemic.

//Enemy at the gate //<span style="font-family: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> by Phillipa Werry. <span style="font-family: 'Verdana', 'sans-serif'; color: black; font-size: 10pt;">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. Suggested level: primary, intermediate, junior secondary <span style="font-family: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">.

//<span style="font-family: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">The Sea-Wreck Stranger //<span style="font-family: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> by Anna McKenzie, the paranoia of an island community who has survived.

//<span style="font-family: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">A Better Life //<span style="font-family: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> by Amelia Batistich (My Story NZ series). Set in Dargaville in the 1920's. Ivana?s parents immigrated to New Zealand from Dalmatia. Dargaville is a strong Dalmatian community and Ivana and her family are sometimes the victims of others? prejudices because of their different culture. At the end of 1924 life as Ivana knows it changes. There is a nationwide epidemic of infantile paralysis and Dargaville is placed under quarantine. How will Ivana cope without being able to see her friends at church and school?

//<span style="font-family: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Starbright and the Dream Eater //<span style="font-family: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> by Joy Cowley. People all over Claircomb are succumbing to a strange illness, thought to be a deadly new virus. But this is no virus, it is a life form so advanced that its intelligence makes a computer look like counting beads. It knows the prophecy too, and it is hunting down the Bright Star to destroy her forever. Can Starbright Connor, the town's tomboy and giggly dare-devil, be the chosen one who will save her friends and family?

If you can track them down - the novelisation of the TV series "The Tribe"

<span style="font-family: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> //<span style="font-family: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Year of wonders: a novel of the plague //<span style="font-family: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> by Geraldine Brooks. <span style="font-family: 'Verdana', 'sans-serif'; color: black; font-size: 10pt;">Eighteen-year-old Anna Frith tells the story of her remote English village, Eyam, which was infected by the plague in 1666 and where, persuaded by their vicar, the townspeople decided to quarantine themselves. <span style="font-family: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">
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//<span style="font-family: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">A parcel of patterns //<span style="font-family: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> by Jill Paton Walsh.

//<span style="font-family: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">The Andromeda Strain //<span style="font-family: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> by Michael Crichton

//<span style="font-family: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Box //<span style="font-family: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> by Penelope Todd. <span style="font-family: 'Verdana', 'sans-serif'; color: black; font-size: 10pt;">Derik is on the run. Not from the deadly epidemics on the rise in New Zealand but from the ruling government and its efforts to wipe out disease. The authorities have begun Endorsement: a nation-wide drive to implant a device in every citizen, to regulate body chemistry and control emotions. It's a social experiment the whole world is watching. But Derik wants to think and feel, for himself. Trying to find shelter, he soon discovers he's not the only one to have turned fugitive. Suggested level: secondary. //<span style="font-family: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Kokopu dreams //<span style="font-family: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> by Chris Baker. <span style="font-family: 'Verdana', 'sans-serif'; color: black; font-size: 10pt;">Before the telly died, haggard looking people, politicians mostly, described how an illegally imported rabbit calicivirus had mutated. It wasn't killing rabbits any more, and nor was it affecting cats and dogs, and not the native bat nor the little spotted kiwi. But it had been killing people with a type of haemorrhagic fever that travelled from the Mackenzie Country up and down the land like the wind, from Bluff to Cape Reinga in about three weeks. And that was the good news. <span style="font-family: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> //<span style="font-family: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Shadow waters //<span style="font-family: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> by Chris Baker (sequel to Kokopu dreams). <span style="font-family: 'Verdana', 'sans-serif'; color: black; font-size: 10pt;">After a devastating pandemic, Hoheria and Ken travel through a decimated landscapte to fulfil a promise. What they discover is a world where myth has become real and long-dormant ancient spirits have increased their power with terrifying consequences. <span style="font-family: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">