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Or that there was a free african society that helped citizens of philadelphia in the. Fourteenyearold mattie cook has just lost her childhood playmate to the fever and struggles to keep her family and her familys business alive. Signin to download and listen to this audiobook today. Mattie is, for the most part, just a normal teenager. Fever 1793 laurie halse anderson snippet view 2000. We follow the epidemic through matilda cook and her small group of family and friends. Its 1793, and though business has never been better at the. Im just in the beginning, so i havent got through a lot of the book yet, but what i have read is perfect for a reader that loves suspenseful books.
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Sep 01, 2000 in an intense, wellresearched tale that will resonate particularly with readers in parts of the country where the west nile virus and other insectborne diseases are active, anderson speak, 1999, etc. In 1793 philadelphia, sixteenyearold matilda cook, separated from her sick mother, learns about perseverance and selfreliance when she is forced to cope with the horrors of a yellow fever epidemic. Laurie halse anderson laurie halse anderson was born on october 23, 1961 in potsdam, new york. September 8th, 1793 in laurie halse andersons fever 1793.
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