num_pages: 243
description: 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.
language: English
title: Fever 1793
titlecomplete: Fever 1793
characters: Mattie Cook
genres: Historical, Middle Grade, Audiobook, Young Adult, Childrens, School, Survival, Teen, Historical Fiction, Fiction
ratings_count: 122600
places: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
awards: awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: California Young Readers Medal
category: Middle School/Junior High, awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book Award, awardedAt: 1230796800000
name: Margaret A. Edwards Award
publisher: Scholastic