Counting Crows (Threads of Courage)

It is 1918, and fourth-grade teacher Maggie Canavan feels invisible living in the shadow of her parents' successful teaching careers. The Great War has taken most of the eligible boys from the rural Maryland village where she lives, and at twenty-one, Maggie yearns for a more exciting life. A unique opportunity sends her to live with her aunt in Greenwich Village for the summer. Once settled in New York, Maggie falls in love with the city. She soon becomes drawn into the world of feminism, the horrors of the sweatshop industry, and the two men who steal her heart. But no one prepares her for the flu pandemic that ravages the city and claims over 33,000 lives, changing her destiny forever.