Fever, 1793, Laurie Halse Anderson
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Fever, 1793, Laurie Halse Anderson
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fiction
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Fever, 1793
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Laurie Halse Anderson
Summary
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
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adult
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- Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Fiction
- Grandfathers -- Juvenile fiction
- Epidemics -- Juvenile fiction
- Families -- Juvenile fiction
- Sick -- Juvenile fiction
- Epidemics -- Fiction
- Youth and death -- Juvenile fiction
- Widows -- Juvenile fiction
- Survival -- Juvenile fiction
- Yellow fever -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Juvenile fiction
- Self-reliance -- Juvenile fiction
- Yellow fever -- Fiction
- Pennsylvania -- History -- 1775-1865 -- Fiction
- Survival -- Fiction
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- Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Fiction
- Grandfathers -- Juvenile fiction
- Epidemics -- Juvenile fiction
- Families -- Juvenile fiction
- Sick -- Juvenile fiction
- Epidemics -- Fiction
- Youth and death -- Juvenile fiction
- Widows -- Juvenile fiction
- Survival -- Juvenile fiction
- Yellow fever -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Juvenile fiction
- Self-reliance -- Juvenile fiction
- Yellow fever -- Fiction
- Pennsylvania -- History -- 1775-1865 -- Fiction
- Survival -- Fiction
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