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Book

Death by frightful food

Call Number

  • J 363.192 GUNA (EAS, OSH)

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Publication Information

Minneapolis, MN : Bearport Publishing, [2022]

Physical Description

32 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Audience

Grades 4-6 Bearport Publishing Company.

Summary

"Welcome to the disaster zone where frightful foods are killer. Discover the Swedish king who killed himself by stuffing his gut, the famous philosopher who was taken down by apricots, and how the love for beans killed in ancient Greece. There's so much to explore when it comes to disastrous deaths"--

Contents

  • Welcome to the disaster zone
  • Adolf Frederick of Sweden
  • To die for!
  • Mrs. Troffea and the dancing plague
  • Fever food
  • Denis Diderot
  • Told you so
  • Pythagoras
  • He must have been joking
  • Henry Purcell
  • Out on a low note
  • Qin Shi Huangdi
  • Live forever ... or don't
  • Timeline of death.

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