Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson December 3, 2011
Posted by jcarlson in : Family Fiction, Historical Fiction , trackback
As you can tell from the title, this book takes place in the year 1793. Mattie Cook, a 14 year old girl, lives with her widowed mother and grandfather in the rooms above their Philadelphia coffeehouse. She’s rather lazy but has big plans for the future. Then the yellow fever epidemic hits. Thousands of people in Philadelphia die. Mattie’s mother is the first in the family to get sick. Mattie and her grandfather flee the city at her mother’s urging. Will Mattie or her grandfather get sick? Does her mother survive? Does Mattie return to the coffeehouse? To find out the answers to these questions, read this well-written historical fiction book.
~Mrs. Carlson~
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want to read this sounds good
5 STARS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i think it is scary so i don’t want to read it.