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.
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