Ebook {Epub PDF} Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson

Fever Summary. Next. Chapter 1. In August, , year-old Matilda “Mattie” Cook is awakened by her mother, Lucille Cook, scolding her for sleeping late. Mattie is needed immediately to help in their coffeehouse, since their serving girl, Polly, is late for work. Mattie would rather daydream about escaping Philadelphia, much like Blanchard’s hot-air balloon which flew earlier that year, but . “Extremely well researched, Anderson’s novel paints a vivid picture of the seedy waterfront, the devastation the disease wreaks on a once thriving city, and the bitterness of neighbor toward neighbor as those suspected of infection are physically cast aside.”. An epidemic of fever sweeps through the streets of Philadelphia in this novel from Laurie Halse Anderson where "the plot rages like the epidemic itself" (The New York Times Book Review). During the summer of , Mattie Cook lives above the family coffee shop /5(K).

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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 is based on an actual epidemic of yellow fever in Philadelphia that wiped out 5, people--or 10 percent of the city's population--in three months. An epidemic of fever sweeps through the streets of Philadelphia in this novel from Laurie Halse Anderson where "the plot rages like the epidemic itself" (The New York Times Book Review). During the summer of , Mattie Cook lives above the family coffee shop with her widowed mother and grandfather. Fever Summary. Next. Chapter 1. In August, , year-old Matilda “Mattie” Cook is awakened by her mother, Lucille Cook, scolding her for sleeping late. Mattie is needed immediately to help in their coffeehouse, since their serving girl, Polly, is late for work. Mattie would rather daydream about escaping Philadelphia, much like Blanchard’s hot-air balloon which flew earlier that year, but she reluctantly complies.