Fever 1793
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During the summer of 1793, Mattie Cook lives above the family tree coffee shop with her widowed mother and grandfather. Mattie spends her days avoiding chores and building plans to turn the family tree business into the finest Philadelphia has ever seen. But then the fever breaks out.
Disease sweeps the streets, destroying everything in its path and turning Mattie’s world upside down. At her feverish mother’s insistence, Mattie flees the city with her grandfather. But she soon discovers that the sickness is everywhere, and Mattie must learn quickly how to survive in a city turned frantic with disease.Amazon.com Review
On the heels of her acclaimed contemporary teen novel Speak, Laurie Halse Anderson surprises her fans with a riveting and well-researched past 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. At the close of the 18th century, Philadelphia was the bustling capital of the United States, with Washington and Jefferson in residence. During the hot mosquito-infested summer of 1793, the dreaded yellow fever spread like wildfire, killing people overnight. Like specters from the Middle Ages, gravediggers drew carts through the streets crying “Bring out your dead!” The rich fled to the country, abandoning the city to looters, forsaken corpses, and frightened survivors.
In the foreground of this tale is 16-year-ancient Mattie Cook, whose mother and grandfather own a well loved coffee house on High Street. Mattie’s comfortable and appealing life is shattered by the epidemic, as her mother is felled and the girl and her grandfather must flee for their lives. Later, after much hardship and terror, they return to the deserted town to find their ex- cook, a freed slave, effective with the African Free Society, an actual group who undertook to visit and help the sick and saved many lives. As first frost arrives and the epidemic ends, Mattie’s sufferings have changed her from a willful child to a strong, capable young woman able to manage her family tree’s business on her own. (Ages 12 and older) –Patty Campbell
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The book we received had the prior owner’s name written on the outer edge of the right side when holding the book upright. The marking appears to have been written with a Sharpee, so it was impossible to remove lacking damaging the outer edges of the pages. In hindsight, we would not have bought a used book had we known about the markings. Amazon did not warn us of this specifically. This is the first time we used Amazon, and reasonably frankly, we are very disappointed! To simple state that the used book is in “honest” condition is simply misleading.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
ok so this is a terrible book. i reflect it makes no sence an it was terribly written. im not an english practiced but c’mon
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
The bubonic plague in Europe took 25 million lives. The Yellow Fever in 18th century Philadelphia took a mere 5000 lives and lasted a few weeks. Anderson overdramatizes the event both in the past context as well as the storyline. So much happens to her heroine over such a fleeting period of time that it strains credulity.
Also, a note to the leader. On Page 187 of the paperback, ‘laying’ should be ‘lying’ according to the rules of right grammar.
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5
The book Ferver 1793 was a past fiction book. That is why I reflect that it was so dull.Some kids get on here and write o this book was so excellent I loved it. Even when they despised it. It killed me to end this book.I had to read it for school and let me tell you ,I never knew school could be so much torture.Polly dies then everyone else dies.Let me know when the movie comes out. This book was so dumb it nearly made me wanna scream. Snorezilla strikes again is what the real title should be.I give it 2 thumbs down+8 fingers.Bo
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
I thought that fever might have been a really excellent book if the leader had concentrated more on what to write and place a small more kids stuff in it becuse it seemed like an adult book. And i did not like it
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5