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Fever, 1793 / Laurie Halse Anderson.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2000Description: 251 pages ; 19 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0689838581
  • 9780689838583
  • 0689848919
  • 9780689848919
  • 0613450396
  • 9780613450393
  • 9781413100822
  • 1413100821
  • 9781439528570
  • 1439528578
  • 043935675X
  • 9780439356756
  • 0756910579
  • 9780756910570
Other title:
  • Fever, seventeen hundred and ninety three
  • Fever, seventeen hundred ninety three
Uniform titles:
  • Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers.
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Awards:
  • Lifetime Achievement in Literature for Young Readers, ALA.
  • ALA Best Books for Young Adults, 2001.
  • California Young Readers Medal Nominee for Middle School/Junior High, 2004
  • Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book Award, 2003.
  • Margaret Edwards Award, 2009.
Summary: 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.
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Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Children's Book Children's Book Dr. James Carlson Library Children's Fiction ANDERSON LAURIE H Available 33111009739430
Children's Book Children's Book Main Library Children's Fiction ANDERSON LAURIE H Available 33111009657483
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

From Fever 1793
"Where's Polly?" I asked as I dropped the bucket down the well. "Did you pass by the blacksmith's?
"I spoke with her mother, with Mistress Logan," Mother answered softly, looking at her neat rows of carrots.
"And?" I waved a mosquito away from my face.
"It happened quickly. Polly sewed by candlelight after dinner. Her mother repeated that over and over, 'she sewed by candlelight after dinner.' And then she collapsed."
I released the handle and the bucket splashed, a distant sound.
"Matilda, Polly's dead."
August 1793. Fourteen-year-old Mattie Cook is ambitious, adventurous, and sick to death of listening to her mother. Mattie has plans of her own. She wants to turn the Cook Coffeehouse into the finest business in Philadelphia, the capital of the new United States.
But the waterfront is abuzz with reports of disease. "Fever" spreads from the docks and creeps toward Mattie's home, threatening everything she holds dear.
As the cemeteries fill with fever victims, fear turns to panic, and thousands flee the city. Then tragedy strikes the coffeehouse, and Mattie is trapped in a living nightmare. Suddenly, her struggle to build a better life must give way to something even more important -- the fight to stay alive.

"Book design by Steve Scott"--Title page verso.

Ages 10 up.

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.

Accelerated Reader/Renaissance Learning UG 4.4 7.

Lifetime Achievement in Literature for Young Readers, ALA.

Accelerated Reader 4.4.

Reading Counts! 7.6.

580 Lexile.

ALA Best Books for Young Adults, 2001.

California Young Readers Medal Nominee for Middle School/Junior High, 2004

Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book Award, 2003.

Margaret Edwards Award, 2009.

Accelerated Reader AR UG 4.4 7 42961.

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