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80 pp.
| Lerner/Graphic Universe
| April, 2019
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LibraryISBN 978-1-5415-4155-9$29.32
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PaperISBN 978-1-5415-4528-1$9.99
(3)
YA
Illustrated by
Ben Hutchings.
Created by Briony Barr and Gregory Crocetti. After caring for a WWI soldier infected with dysentery on the Western Front in 1916, Sister Annie Barnaby, a nurse, contracts the disease herself. As the invading Shigella bacteria wreak havoc in her gut, Annie's body--via bacteriophage--fights back: "You infect, we protect!" Black-and-white panels focus on a microcosmic life-or-death battle in this engrossing graphic-novel mash-up of historical fiction and medical science.