Plague: A Cross on the Door
By Ann Turnbull and Akbar Ali
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Spring 1665, London
Sam was just a young boy when his master took him out of the orphanage to be his servant. When he was old enough, he was going to become his master's apprentice, a shoemaker, able to make his own way in the world.
But that was before the plague arrived.
Abandoned by Alice, his master's maid and the closet thing that Sam's ever had to a mother, Sam finds himself nailed into his workshop home with only his dying master and pet dog Budge for company. The officials call it 'quarantine'. But for Sam it's a death sentence.
Can Sam escape? And even if he does, will he be able to survive on London's ravaged streets?
Ann Turnbull
Ann, who lives in the Shropshire town of Telford, is best-known for her historical novels, including the Friends and Foes trilogy - of which the first book, Pigeon Summer, was shortlisted for the Smarties Prize. She has been writing since the age of six and her first book was published in 1974. Since then, more than 25 books have followed.
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Plague - Ann Turnbull
For Tim
Contents
1 Plague Weather
2 All Cats and Dogs
3 Death All Around
4 The Apothecary
5 Locked In
6 Escape
7 Alone in the City
8 Caught!
9 Changes
1
Plague Weather
Sam! Here!
The boys were in a courtyard, kicking a ball around. Their shouts bounced off the high wooden walls of the surrounding houses.
Sam stopped the ball with his foot, and kicked it. His friends yelled. The ball slammed against someone’s door.
Shut that racket!
screamed a voice.
A woman glared at them from an upstairs window. They ignored her at first, then moved away.
Sam wiped sweat from his forehead. The sun beat down and there was no breeze. ‘Plague weather’, his master called it.
A woman died of plague in our alley,
said John Jenks, picking up the ball. He was red-faced from the heat. Stepped out of her house and fell down dead. Everyone ran a mile!
The boys laughed. The plague! One minute you were well, the next, dead as a doornail. It made a great game. Sam rolled his eyes, shouted, Aargh!
and dropped like a stone.
His friends ran out into Watling Street, shrieking and pretending to be afraid. As Sam dived after them, he spotted some of the French boys from Cheapside.
Get the frogs!
he shouted.
There were three French boys. Sam and his friends often scrapped with them, jeering at their funny clothes and strange frog language.
At once a fight began. Two of the French boys gave as good as they got. The third was slight and clever-looking, but not tough. He also had a limp.
Sam’s master was a shoemaker and Sam had sometimes seen this boy in the shop. He needed special shoes.
Gammy-leg frog – hop back to France!
Sam shouted.
The boy turned and faced him. I was born in London, stupid,
he said.
There was a superior air about him that annoyed Sam.
"You’re