Fever 1793
by Laurie Halse Anderson
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In 1793 Philadelphia, sixteen-year-old Matilda Cook, separated from her sick mother, learns about perseverance and self-reliance when she is forced to cope with the horrors of a yellow fever epidemic.
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Yellow fever, Epidemics, Juvenile fiction, Fiction, Survival, History, Children's fiction, Pennsylvania, fiction, Philadelphia (pa.), fiction, Sick, Self-reliance, Families, Widows, Youth and death, Grandfathers, Historical fiction, Children's stories, American, Gelbfieber, Weibliche Jugend, ÜberlebenPlaces
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Fever 1793
2002, Aladdin Paperbacks
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It's late summer 1793, and the streets of Philadelphia are abuzz with mosquitoes and rumors of fever. Down near the docks, many have taken ill, and the fatalities are mounting. Now they include Polly, the serving girl at the Cook Coffeehouse. But fourteen-year-old Mattie Cook doesn't get a moment to mourn the passing of her childhood playmate. New customers have overrun her family's coffee shop, located far from the mosquito-infested river, and Mattie's concerns of fever are all but overshadowed by dreams of growing her family's small business into a thriving enterprise. But when the fever begins to strike closer to home, Mattie's struggle to build a new life must give way to a new fight—the fight to stay alive.
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