Anderson, Laurie Halse.

Fever, 1793 / Fever, seventeen hundred ninety three Laurie Halse Anderson. - 1st Aladdin Paperbacks ed. - New York : Aladdin Paperbacks, 2002, c2000. - 251 p. ; 20 cm.

Wilson's Children, July 2002 Wilson's Junior High School, November 2005 School Library Journal starred, August 2000 Notable/Best Books (A.L.A.), January 2001 Book Links (A.L.A.), November 2006 Books for the Teen Age (NYPL), May 2002 Booklist, April 2001 New York Times, November 2000 Horn Book, September 2000 Bulletin (Center for Children's books), October 2000

In 1793 Philadelphia, sixteen-year-old Matilda Cook, separated from her sick mother, learns about perseverance and self-reliance when she is forced to cope with the horrors of a yellow fever epidemic.

5.0 5-8 Follett Library Resources



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Yellow fever--Fiction.
Epidemics--Fiction.
Survival skills--Fiction.
Historical fiction.


Pennsylvania--History--Fiction.
Philadelphia (Pa.)--Fiction.

PZ7.A54385 / Fe 2002

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