Fever 1793

Genre-Survival

Level- Late 5th grade and up!

Author- Laurie Halse Anderson

# of pages- 243

Fever 1793 is a great book! Its about a girl named Matilda Cook and her family and friend and how and if they survive Yellow Fever. Yellow Fever started in Philadelphia. It killed thousands of people. But in the book Mattie had to learn how to be responsible and learn how to care for other things/people. Fever would die down every first frost but then would come back. Mattie lived with her mother,grandfather and to servants for the Cook coffee house. But when mother gets sick and one of the servants died, and Mattie and grandfather leave, what will Mattie do? Will she survive until the first frost? You'll find out if you read this book!

I would recommend this book to anyone who likes a survival book. I really enjoyed this book and if you read it, I hope you do to!!

By: Jaclyn