Fever, 1793

Fever, 1793

by Laurie Halse Anderson

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Matilda "Mattie" Cook is living during one of the hottest summers on record in Philadelphia. Instead of being able to lounge around and try to keep cool in the heat, Mattie must help her mother and grandfather run their coffeehouse, which is the only income they have since her father died in a freak accident years before.
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It's hard work, but Mattie hasn't really known hard work until the fever starts. Over the next three months, Mattie watches as everyone around her seems to go crazy with the fear of Yellow Fever. Stores close up shop. Households pack up and run for the countryside. Families dump their sick relatives on the streets to be picked up by the wagon for the dead.

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And though she and her family live just blocks from the residence of President George Washington, even his close proximity cannot protect her and her family.

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With this book, you'll not only see the events that took place surrounding the Yellow Fever outbreak of 1793, you'll live through them and even begin to worry if you'll survive.