By Pamela Oldfield
Scholastic Canada Ltd | ISBN 9780545985475 Paperback
160 Pages | 5.08" x 7.82" | Ages 9 to 12
It seems that in the past week 700 people have died of the plague. . . One of the
houses in the next street had a red cross painted on the door. Above the cross someone
had chalked Lord Have Mercy Upon Us. . . ”
A time of horror has come to London. As the bubonic plague ravages the city,
mercilessly plucking up victims and filling the plague pits with corpses, 13-yearold
Alice Payton records the outbreak in her diary. But when her own aunt is
struck down with the disease, Anne is forced to make a decision that could change
her life forever. 
