A Death-Struck Year Nominated for the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis 2016, category Jugendbuch

"Readers will be swept up in the story as Cleo builds friendships and manages to find hope amid disease and death." -Kirkus "Highly sympathetic characters, a solid sense of place, and the transformation of a city under siege by an invisible assailant result in a powerful and disturbing reading experience." -Publishers Weekly "Lucier has done her research, creating a compelling work of historical fiction alongside a more timeless journey of self-discovery." -Bulletin "The novel's strong voice intimately places readers directly into the dramatic plot right up to climactic ending. . . . Lucier's novel deserves a place in all high school collections." -School Library Journal, starred review "Lucier's debut details Cleo's loss of innocence, as she deals with gruesome deaths and emergency surgeries...supplying readers with a broad understanding of the era and the epidemic via a spirited and easy-to-relate-to protagonist." -Booklist "A rare window into another time and place, one that invites readers to draw parallels to their own lives in contemporary times." -Horn Book Magazine