# Plague Year

**Author:** Stephanie S. Tolan
**Grade range:** Grades 9–12
**Age range:** 14–17
**First published:** 1990
**Page count:** 203
**Genre:** Mystery
**ISBN-13:** `9780606217583`
**ISBN-10:** `0606217584`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/plague-year
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

Sixteen-year-old David becomes intimately involved when a scandal is discovered about the strange new boy in his high school and everyone else turns against him.

## Themes

- high schools
- prejudices
- schools
- mystery and detective stories

## Where this book is assigned

### Virginia Readers' Choice

- **recommended** · 9th grade · Virginia — [source: Virginia Readers' Choice past winners, 1992-1993 winner (High)](https://vslatoday.org/VRC-past-titles)
- **recommended** · 10th grade · Virginia — [source: Virginia Readers' Choice past winners, 1992-1993 winner (High)](https://vslatoday.org/VRC-past-titles)
- **recommended** · 11th grade · Virginia — [source: Virginia Readers' Choice past winners, 1992-1993 winner (High)](https://vslatoday.org/VRC-past-titles)
- **recommended** · 12th grade · Virginia — [source: Virginia Readers' Choice past winners, 1992-1993 winner (High)](https://vslatoday.org/VRC-past-titles)

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