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Sep 1, 2000 · Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson is a short novel about the Yellow Fever is Philadelphia in 1793. It took Matilda’s grAndfather, many friends and 5 thousand plus individuals from that area in 3 months. This is a story about survival and over coming all odds. I enjoyed the book but the Narration was horrible. Especially at the beginning.
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Mar 1, 2002 · Fever 1793. Paperback – March 1, 2002. An epidemic of fever sweeps through the streets of 1793 Philadelphia in this novel from Laurie Halse Anderson where "the plot rages like the epidemic itself" (The New York Times Book Review). During the summer of 1793, Mattie Cook lives above the family coffee shop with her widowed mother and grandfather.
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Fever 1793 Full Book Summary. Matilda Cook is a fourteen-year-old girl living in Philadelphia in 1793. Matilda’s mother, Lucille, manages the coffeehouse, and they live above the shop with Grandfather, Matilda’s deceased father’s father, who fought in the war. Matilda dreams of one day owning her own shops and traveling to Paris, but for ...
An epidemic of fever sweeps through the streets of 1793 Philadelphia in this novel from Laurie Halse Anderson where "the plot rages like the epidemic itself" (The New York Times Book Review). During the summer of 1793, Mattie Cook lives above the family coffee shop with her widowed mother and grandfather.
- Paperback
- March 01, 2002
- Reprint
Jun 23, 2003 · An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 (Newbery Honor Book) Hardcover – June 23, 2003 by Jim Murphy (Author) 4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars 412 ratings
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- Jim Murphy
Aug 16, 2011 · On the heels of her acclaimed contemporary teen novel Speak, Laurie Halse Anderson surprises her fans with a riveting and well-researched historical fiction. Fever 1793 is based on an actual epidemic of yellow fever in Philadelphia that wiped out 5,000 people--or 10 percent of the city's population--in three months.
Published in 2000, Laurie Halse Anderson’s Fever 1793 is a historical young adult novel set in 18th-century Philadelphia. Despite horrific conditions and tragic losses, fourteen-year-old Matilda Cook finds the strength to navigate the devastating yellow fever epidemic that overtakes Philadelphia. Anderson recreates the feeling and culture of ...
