内容简介：
Alice is growing up in Cincinnati during World War I. Her life is turned upside-down when her favorite older brother enlists in the army. Sheas left at home with a perfect older sister who doesnat understand her and a tidy, tattling younger brother whom Alice always has to take care of. At least Alice has her best friend Alex living next door. Little does she know that she will soon be fighting a war of her ownanot against the Germans in Europe, but against a deadly disease which invades her city, the United States, and the world. Will someone so young be able to make a difference against such a killer? Will this epidemic end before it has taken the people Alice loves, or Alice herself?