Title:
The other pandemic : an AIDS memoir / Lynn Curlee.
ISBN:
9781623543501
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
Watertown, MA : Charlesbridge, [2023]
©2023
Physical Description:
164 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents:
Important people -- Introduction: The years of COVID-19 -- Growing up gay in America -- "The only living boy in New York" -- "Disco inferno" -- "California Dreamin'" -- Gay cancer -- America reacts -- Summer of 1985 -- Star power -- An era of pain and sorrow -- Bucket list -- Home alone -- End -- After -- Tributes -- Epilogue: "Being alive, being alive."
Summary:
"Interwoven with photographs of the people lost, this memoir chronicles the AIDS pandemic from the late 1970s to the late 1990s, up until the death of the author's partner"-- Provided by publisher.
Interest age level:
Ages 12 and up Charlesbridge.
Interest grade level:
Grades 10-12 Charlesbridge.
Audience:
1030L Lexile
OCLC Number:
on1334563649
Availability:
Burnsville - Burnhaven~1
South St. Paul - Kaposia~1
