The plague

For quite a while during Shakespeare's life the plague was a big threat   1582, 1592 (15,000 deaths), 1603, and 1607.

The Elizabethans had no idea that fleas on rats was what carried the plague 

Take yarrow, tansy, feather few, of each a handful, and bruise them well together, then let the sick party make water into the herbs, then strain them, and give it the sick to drink.

book review : The Resistance

The Resistance by Carla Jablonski is an asme story about world war 2. As germans come through the town families start to disappear and everyone know why except one. A young girl that has a crush on a possible victim. So with the help of her brother they find her crush and hide him. The young man has nothing to do but stay in the basement they hid him in so he thinks and as he's rattling around in his own noggin. He remembers his parents and start thinking "are they dead, are they alive." Then a secret note says that they're alive. The young man and his admirer and her brother set off to find his family. History buffs anf teens would like this book.