Fourteen-year-old Mattie Cook loses her childhood playmate to the fever and struggles to keep her family and its business alive. Laurie Halse Anderson’s Fever 1793 is a historical young adult novel set in eighteenth-century Philadelphia. |a In 1793 the Cook Coffeehouse outside of Philadelphia is a haven for those fleeing from the fever sweeping across the mosquito-infested city. Suddenly, her struggle to build a better life must give way to something even more important - the fight to stay alive.|a : |b Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, |c 20020301. Simon & Schuster Childrens Publishing, 17.99 (256pp) ISBN 978-8-3. Then tragedy strikes the coffeehouse, and Mattie is trapped in a living nightmare. During the summer of 1793, Mattie Cook lives above the family coffee shop with her widowed mother and grandfather. tags: eating-disorders, parents, teenagers. 'You are forbidden to pseak to me in that tone Apologize at once. As the cemeteries fill with fever victims, fear turns to panic, and thousands flee the city. As soon as the angry words were out of my mouth, I knew I had gone too far. "Fever" spreads from the docks and creeps toward Mattie's home, threatening everything she holds dear. But the waterfront is abuzz with reports of disease. She wants to turn the Cook Coffeehouse into the finest business in Philadelphia, the capital of the new United States.
Fourteen-year-old Mattie Cook is ambitious, adventurous, and sick to death of listening to her mother. An epidemic of fever sweeps through the streets of 1793 Philadelphia in this novel from Laurie Halse Anderson where 'the plot rages like the epidemic itself' (The New York Times Book Review).During the summer of 1793, Mattie Cook lives above the family coffee shop with her widowed mother and grandfather. Fourteen-year-old Mattie Cook is ambitious, adventurous, and sick to death of listening to her mother. 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. "And?" I waved a mosquito away from my face. It is 1793 and young Mattie is living in Philadelphia, the largest city in the United States where her mother runs a successful coffee shop - Then the city. "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. Its late summer 1793, and the streets of Philadelphia are abuzz with. Fever, 1793, by Laurie Halse Anderson is the story of Mattie, a teen who lives in Philadelphia with her mother, and grandfather in 1793 during the yellow fever.
From Fever 1793 "Where's Polly?" I asked as I dropped the bucket down the well. During the summer of 1793, Mattie Cook lives above the family coffee shop with her.
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