Anderson, Laurie Halse.

Fever, 1793 / Laurie Halse Anderson. - 1st Aladdin Paperbacks ed. - New York : Aladdin Paperbacks, 2002, c2000. - 251 p. ; 19 cm.

In 1793 Philadelphia, sixteen-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.

Ages 10 and up.

ISBN: 0689848919 (pbk.)

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Subjects--Topical Terms:
Epidemics--Fiction.
Yellow fever--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--Fiction.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Pennsylvania--History--1775-1865--Fiction.