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Fever, 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson. 256 p. Simon & Schuster, September, 2000. 9780689838583. (Own)
#tbt features Fever, 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson. It is the summer of 1793 in Philadelphia, the new nation's capitol. Fourteen-year-old Mattie lives with her mother and grandfather above their coffee house. Mattie has visions of making it into a more respectable establishment even though she avoids chores at all costs. Then, yellow fever sweeps the city and Mattie's mother falls ill. She insists that Mattie leave the city with her grandfather for their own safety, but the disease has swept the countryside too and there's nowhere to turn as well as dangers worse than the disease out there.
Fever, 1793 published twenty years ago and, over the years, has been the book that made non-readers readers. It's immediate and intense. Mattie's story will suck you right in.
I've had this book on my book shelves for years. Thanks for reminding me that it's time to read it,
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