The fourteen year old Mattie Cook is living in with her mother and grandfather in the center of Philadelphia.Her mom and grandfather are running the Cook Coffeehouse, wich is one of the finest businesses in the city.
Rumors are coming into the city of a 'fever', wich is coming from the docks of the city and is attacking more and more people: yellow fever. The fever spreads into the city and more people are dying and trying to get out of Philadelphia. Everyone is in fear and panic, and Mattie's mother is lost in all of this. When soon after that her grandfather dies, Mattie has to find out how to survive on her own in a city that is turned into a ghost town. And has to find out how she can find her mother back..
The story of Fever 1793 is both fictional, historical and educational. It explains and gives a look in the life of a teen girl in Philadelhia in 1793, a very different time period. If you have to read about that time period for a middle school assignment, this is the book to read.Laurie Halse Anderson has made it an understandable story about real historic events and facts for young readers.
