|aEel, an orphan, and his best friend Florrie must help Dr. John Snow prove that cholera is spread through water, and not poisonous air, when an epidemic sweeps across their London neighborhood in 1854.
A tale set against a backdrop of the mid-19th-century London cholera epidemic follows the survival efforts of a young orphan who supports himself by selling scavenged items from a polluted River Thames and who helps a pioneering doctor identify the source of the virulent disease. By the award-winning author of Sky Boys.