Fever 1793

Anderson, L. (2002).  Fever 1793.  New York:  Aladdin Paperbacks.

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Mattie Cook lives a good life.  She has her mother and grandfather and their coffeehouse.  That summer of 1793, devastation takes hold of the city of Philadelphia.  Sickness, death, and unforseen peril are running rampant through the city.  Will Mattie survive?  Will her family?  Yellow fever has a grip on Philadelphia...and it's not letting go. Have you ever had to perservere through hard times or learn to be self-reliant?  This book is about a young girl who has to learn to do just that when forced to cope with the horror of the yellow fever epidemic of 1793.