![]() ![]() Some characters die, and there are brief gory descriptions of injuries and plague symptoms as well as dead bodies. Pee and poop abound, sometimes as part of the pre-plumbing scenery and sometimes as a chemical ingredient. ![]() As in Book 1, the narrator gives the recipe for gunpowder. Like in Book 1, Mark of the Plague delivers swashbuckling adventure, brain-teasing puzzles, several explosions, and assorted gun-brandishing and sword-wielding. One mystery: Who is this stranger who seems to be able to cure the bubonic plague that's ravaging the city - and what's in his medicine? Another: Where (and what) is the mysterious treasure left to 14-year-old Christopher by his late master? As the plot unfolds against a backdrop of the black plague's devastation, the teens suffer beatings, stabbings, poisonings, and more in their efforts to discover and unmask a murderer. ![]() Parents need to know that Mark of the Plague is physicist-turned-author Kevin Sands' follow-up to the much-honored The Blackthorn Key, with its teen protagonists facing new dangers and struggling to solve new mysteries in 1665 London. ![]()
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