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Fever 1793 by: Laurie Halse Anderson Childrens Bookshop Price: $6.99 Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Paperback EAN: 9780689848919 ISBN: 0689848919 Label: Aladdin Manufacturer: Aladdin Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 272 Publication Date: March 01, 2002 Publisher: Aladdin Reading Level: Young Adult Studio: Aladdin Sales Rank: 7116 Related Items:
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Editorial Review: Product Description: During the summer of 1793, Mattie Cook lives above the family coffee shop with her widowed mother and grandfather. Mattie spends her days avoiding chores and making plans to turn the family 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: On the heels of her acclaimed contemporary teen novel Speak, Laurie Halse Anderson surprises her fans with a riveting and well-researched historical 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 story is 16-year-old Mattie Cook, whose mother and grandfather own a popular coffee house on High Street. Mattie's comfortable and interesting 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 former cook, a freed slave, working with the African Free Society, an actual group who undertook to visit and assist 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's business on her own. (Ages 12 and older) --Patty Campbell Average Rating:
 Rating:  - This book was so well written, I did not want to stop reading!Young, gifted students could read this book. The only mature topic covered is death (no sexual stuff). The target audience is high school age, but I am in my 30's, and I loved reading the book. I cried along with the main character and hoped she would find her mother alive. I originally read the book to screen it for my daughter who is a gifted student, but very young. I enjoyed the book a lot more than I thought I would. I liked how at the end the author lists what she made up ... Read More: Rating: - Informative read!Besides being a wonderful story this is an accurate view of history during the making of our country. It is a heart-wrenching look at illness when we had no tools to combat sickness and, in general, I would seriously recommend having your children read this book. This author is amazing at historical accuracy and storytelling. Rating: - J. Conkey's Book ReviewThe book Fever 1793 was about a girl who is sick and everybody else is sick as and she needs to help everybody. The girls name is Matilda, Father and Mother. Matilda is facing the fever to protect the citizens of 1793. This book took place in 1793. The book 1793 is very recommended to everyone because it has lots of action and it shows passion. We learned that it takes that it takes pride and honor to help other people. Rating: - history, character, catastrophe, adventure, science, adolescence. what more do you need?Mattie is a growing, constantly hungry, and sleepy teenager who lives with her mother and grandfather in their coffeehouse in Philadelphia a decade after the Revolutionary War. She has a crush on a painter's apprentice, and her mother strives to not only make Mattie work harder, but to break into the upper class. Mattie's life changes when her city is suddenly the center of a Yellow Fever epidemic. She must deal with her sick mother, the differing opinions of care, thieves, starvation, her own health, ... Read More: Rating: - FeverThrilling, educational and exciting; Fever had me hooked by the first sentence! Set in 1793, Fever tells the story of a young girl dealing with the yellow fever epidemic. Honest to the soul, Fever is an amazing book and one of the greatest books I have ever read! |
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