Path of the Pale Horse [Paperback]

Paul Fleischman (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: 1992

The heartwarming story of love and sacrifice - Lep, an apprentice to a doctor, helps his master take care of yellow fever victims in Philadelphia during the epidemic of 1793.

Product Details

• Paperback: 144 pages
• Publisher: SCHOLASTIC INC. @ (1992)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0590464213
• ISBN-13: 978-0590464215
• Product Dimensions: 7.4 x 5 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 0.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,781,299 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Paul Fleischman grew up in Santa Monica, California, the son of children's book author Sid Fleischman. Drawing on history, music, art, and theater, his books have often experimented with multiple viewpoints and performance. He received the Newbery Medal in 1989 for JOYFUL NOISE: POEMS FOR TWO VOICES, a Newbery Honor Award for GRAVEN IMAGES, the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction for BULL RUN, and was a National Book Award finalist for BREAKOUT. He lives on the central coast of California.

For more information, visit paulfleischman.net.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars HEALING ARTS AND FRAUD IN YOUNG AMERICA, May 3, 1998

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Plume45 "kitka12345" (Westchester, NY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Path of the pale horse (Unbound)

Fourteen-year-old Lep is apprenticed to a village doctor, steadfastly following his father's dying dream for his son. However news arrives from Philadelphia that the city has been stricken with Yellow Fever, so Lep takes off to rescue his sister visiting there. His faith in medicine and his ability as a healer are put to the test in the infectious city. The citizens do not realzie the role of mosquitoes in spreading this deadly disease; thus they fall victim to quacks and their own unscrupulous servants.

Lep battles with more than malaria as he tries to covnince his older sister that she is the victim of a clever mountebank; and his kindly benefactor that his servants are plotting to rob him blind. Lep's fith in Medicine is severely shaken, but he learns about life, death and most importantly, himself, as he comes of age in the city named for Brotherly Love.

Not to be placed on any Must-Read list, this book still has much to recommend it in an elementary classroom. It represents Historical Fiction but also reveals to young people how primitive the medical practices were in post-Revolutionary times. How doctors treated malaria and other diseases is a topic often neglected in standard History books. An interesting tale with a good plot which will educate young readers.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Very good in-depth book about a boy who gets lost in Philly., April 24, 1997

By A Customer

This review is from: PATH PALE HORSE LB (Library Binding)

This was a very good book about a boy who is an apprientice, who goes to philly to get his sister during a spell of the Yellow Fever. Along the way he gets seperated from his master, can't find him, and also can't find his sister