Fever 1793
By: Laurie Halse Anderson
Publisher: Aladdin
Published: September 1, 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 251
ISBN-13: 9780689848919
Subjects: Yellow fever -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Fiction.; Epidemics -- Fiction.; Survival -- Fiction.; Pennsylvania -- History -- 1775-1865 -- Fiction.; Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
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.