Burlington Public Library

It's 1793, and there's an invisible killer roaming the streets of Philadelphia. The city's residents are fleeing in fear. This killer has a name -- yellow fever -- but everything else about it is a mystery. Its cause is unknown, and there is no cure. This powerful, dramatic account by award-winning author Jim Murphy traces the devastating course of the epidemic. The medical beliefs and practices of the time and the conditions that helped the disease...

Text and photographs describe common things that are yellow, including mustard, pencils, and lemonade.

"Developed by literacy experts for students in kindergarten through grade three, this book introduces yellow animals to young readers through leveled text and related photos"--

Over the course of history, yellow fever has paralyzed governments, halted commerce, quarantined cities, moved the U.S. capital, and altered the outcome of wars. During a single summer in Memphis alone, it cost more lives than the Chicago fire, the San Francisco earthquake, and the Johnstown flood combined. In 1900, the U.S. sent three doctors to Cuba to discover how yellow fever was spread. There, they launched one of history's most controversial...

Introduces the color yellow through illustrations of such objects as lemons, butter, corn, baby chicks, and bananas.

Investigates the color yellow and where it appears in our world, finding it in nature, in signs, and in food.