Then Mattie herself comes down with the fever. However, when Grandfather seems to fall sick, the two are abandoned by their wagon driver who makes off with all their possessions. Mattie’s mother becomes ill, sending the girl and her grandfather to friends in the country. People begin fleeing the city right and left. An epidemic of yellow fever hits the city. Mattie’s beau is Nathaniel Benson, an apprentice to painter Remington Peale.
Their cook is a free African-American Eliza, and they have a serving girl named Polly. with her widowed mother, grandfather Captain William Farnsworth Cook of the Pennsylvania Regiment during the American Revolution, and orange cat Silas.
It is the summer of 1793 in Philadelphia, PA, and fourteen year old Matilda (Mattie) Cook lives above the family coffeehouse on High St. Fever 1793 (published in 2000 by Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Simon and Schuster Children’s Publishing Division, a trademark of Simon and Schuster Inc., 1230 Avenue of the Americas, New York City, NY 10020). No other compensation has been received for the reviews posted on Home School Book Review.Īnderson, Laurie Halse. Any books donated to Home School Book Review for review purposes are in turn donated to a library. Recommended reading level: Ages 10-12 and upĭisclosure: Many publishers and/or authors provide free copies of their books in exchange for an honest review without requiring a positive opinion. (1=nothing objectionable 2=common euphemisms and/or childish slang terms 3=some cursing and/or profanity 4=a lot of cursing and/or profanity 5=obscenity and/or vulgarity) Publisher: Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers, reprinted in 2002
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