Fever 1793.

Anderson, Laurie Halse

Fever 1793. - New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2000.

honor book of the Massachusetts Children's Book Award 2003

In 1793 Philadelphia, fourteen-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.

0-689-83858-1


Historical Fiction
Epidemics
Colonial American Life
Medicine--Colonial American Life
Massachusetts Children's Book Award--Nominee--2002