"Black The Virus is growing! It's infected some of the world's biggest Minecraft servers, and it's recruited a team of monsters to do its bidding. Worst of all, our hero Steve has been taken over by his dark side and become the monstrous Herobrine. Can his friends help return him to the light... or will the online world of Minecraft be doomed forever? "--Provided by publisher.

Desi thinks it's totally unfair that inncocent baby Alicia was born HIV positive. Now the eight-month-old Alicia lives at Childcare because she was given away by her sick teenage mother. Desi can relate to feeling unloved. Can Desi cope with the harsh realities and still believe in love?

"We're all having to get used to wearing face masks in our daily lives. Let's see how our favorite animals wear their masks and still have fun!" -- page [4] of cover.

General information about what a pandemic is, how covid-19 fits in, examples of other pandemics, how a pandemic is different than an epidemic.

Outbreak (1995, 128 min.): A virologist tries to stave off a global biological meltdown. Contagion (2011, 106 min.): The CDC races against time to develop a vaccine against an extremely lethal virus.

"On opening day of the new baseball season, a small model-kit airplane flies down from the stands and buzzes the mound, where a decorated veteran pilot is about to throw out the first ball. The toy plane is an exact replica of the one flown by the war hero. Everyone laughs, thinking it a good prank or a publicity stunt. Until it explodes, killing dozens. Seconds later a swarm of killer drones descend upon the panicked crowd, each one carrying a powerful...

Thomas Hunter is a failed writer selling coffee at the Java Hut in Denver. Leaving work, he suddenly finds himself pursued by assailants through deserted alleyways. Then a silent bullet clips his head ... and his world goes black. From the blackness comes an amazing reality of another world where everything is somehow more real--and dangerous--than on Earth. In one world, he's a battle-scarred general commanding an army of primitive warriors. In the...