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| This book is Fever 1793 and the author is Luarie Halse Anderson. |
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| During the summer of 1793, Matilda Cook lives above the family coffee shop with her widowed mother and grandfather. There is a worker at the coffee shop and her name is Eliza. Matilda's nickname is Mattie. Mattie spends her days making plans to turn the family business into the finest coffee shop Philadelphia has ever seen. Mattie has a crush on this boy named Nathaniel and they were having a great time together for the past few years. But then the fever breaks out. The disease sweeps the streets destroying everything in its path and turning Mattie's world upside down. First Polly dies and then Mattie's mother got the fever and got very sick. So Mattie and her grandfather flees the city because her mom tells them to after she gets the fever too. Mattie soon discovers that the sickness is everywhere, and she must learn how to survive in a city frantic with disease. |
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| The most interesting parts in Fever 1793 is the death of Polly the servant girl who grew up with Mattie. Mattie's encounter with Nathaniel and their reminiscing about a balloon launch. Mattie and her mother, Lucinda, are invited to tea with a wealthy family who is still in Philadelphia. Mattie's mom falls ill, Mattie tries to take care of her and experiences first-hand the symptoms of the yellow fever. Mattie takes care of her grandfather when he becomes ill, though not with the plague. Mattie falls ill with the yellow fever, and her grandfather returns her to a hospital in Philadelphia where she recovers. On their return to the coffeehouse, they find it stripped. Burglars break in and Mattie's grandfather dies defending her. Mattie finds Eliza (A FORMER WORKER AT THE COFFEEHOUSE) still alive and shelters with her. Mattie and Eliza return to the coffeehouse and reopen it. Nathaniel and Mattie are reunited with Nathaniel helping out. The rich, including George Washington, return to the town, showing the plague is at an end. |
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| 1793. The two things that I learned in Fever 1793 is that one the Yellow Fever breaks out in Philadelphia and about 5,000 people died. |
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| I chose to read this book because I read the back and it sounded really good and it was. |
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| I would recommend this book to my mom and my grandma because they both like these kind of stories. |
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