Anderson, Laurie Halse

Fever 1793 / Laurie Halse Anderson - New York : Aladdin Paperbacks , 2002, c2000 - 251 p. ; 20 cm.

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.

Ages 10 up.


English.

9780689848919


Yellow fever---History---Pennsylvania---Philadelphia---18th century----Juvenile literature
Epidemics---Fiction
Survival----Juvenile fiction


Pennsylvania---History---1775-1865----Juvenile literature
Philadelphia (Pa.)----Fiction

PZ7.A54385 / Ch 2008

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