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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. Mattie spends her days avoiding chores and making plans to turn the family business into the finest Philadelphia has ever seen. But then the fever breaks out.

Disease sweeps the streets, destroying everything in its path and turning Mattie's world upside down. At her feverish mother's insistence, Mattie flees the city with her grandfather. But she soon discovers that the sickness is everywhere, and Mattie must learn quickly how to survive in a city turned frantic with disease.

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School Library Journal starred review Readers will be drawn in by the characters and will emerge with a sharp and graphic picture of another world.

The New York Times Book Review A gripping story about living morally under the shadow of rampant death.

VOYA A vivid work, rich with well-drawn characters.

The New York Times Book Review The plot rages like the epidemic itself.

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Laurie Halse Anderson is a New York Times bestselling author known for tackling tough subjects with humor and sensitivity. She’s twice been a National Book Award finalist, for Chains and Speak; Chains also received the 2009 Scott O’Dell Award for Historical Fiction. Laurie was chosen for the 2009 Margaret A. Edwards Award and received the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award in 2023, presented to her by the Crown Princess of Sweden. She lives in Pennsylvania, and you can follow her adventures on Twitter @HalseAnderson or visit her at MadWomanintheForest.com.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ 0689848919
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers; Reprint edition (March 1, 2002)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 272 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9780689848919
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0689848919
Reading age ‏ : ‎ 11+ years, from customers
Lexile measure ‏ : ‎ 580L
Grade level ‏ : ‎ 5 - 9
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 7.2 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.13 x 0.8 x 7.63 inches

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Laurie Halse Anderson is the New York Times-bestselling author who writes for kids of all ages. Known for tackling tough subjects with humor and sensitivity, her work has earned numerous American Library Association and state awards. Two of her books, Speak and Chains, were National Book Award finalists. Chains also earned a spot on the Carnegie Medal Short List.

Laurie received the 2009 Margaret A. Edwards Award given by the Young Adult Library Services Association division of the American Library Association for her "significant and lasting contribution to young adult literature."

Mother of four and wife of one, Laurie lives in Northern New York State, an hour south of the Canadian border, where she likes to watch the snow fall as she writes. Right now she's finishing up her next YA novel and researching Ashes, which will conclude the adventure of Isabel and Curzon that readers enjoyed in her historical novels Chains and Forge.

You'll find loads more information about Laurie and her books on her website: http://madwomanintheforest.com/. You can follow her adventures on Twitter, http://twitter.com/halseanderson, on Facebook, https://www.facebook.com/lauriehalseanderson, and on her blog, http://madwomanintheforest.com/blog/.

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Great

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 10, 2023

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Great book and arrived in perfect condition

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 29, 2023

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It was great amazing detail and descriptions, it’s the type of book you open and can’t stop, it’s took me 3 days to finish after I sunk into it

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 15, 2023

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This is my 16 year old’s favorite book. She read it in middle school. Since she despises reading (weird, I know) it was a complete surprise when she saved this book and produced it this many years later for my other kid to read. Fever 1763 is a definite winner.

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Didn’t realize this is a children’s book about 10-14

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Vivid Portrayal of Epidemic

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“The yellow fever outbreak that struck Philadelphia in 1793 was one of the worst epidemics in United States history. In three months it killed nearly five thousand people, 10 percent of the city’s population.”

Philadelphia, 16 August 1793. Matilda Cook lives with her mother and grandfather above their coffeehouse. Today, before the day is in full swing with their chores, they learn that they lost Polly, their serving girl, to fever. It happened very quickly, in a matter of hours.

“A week later, sixty-four people had died.” The grandfather is skeptical about all those deaths being blamed on fever. He insists, “Even a few hundred isn’t enough to call it an epidemic.”

“There are forty-thousand people living in Philadelphia.” Half of them left the city. Over three thousand are dead. “Those who don’t die of the fever are beginning to starve.”

Matilda, a dreamy girl, now needs to learn how to survive the plague.

Loved the character of Matilda. She is so opposite of her mother, who is a very hard worker and that’s what distinguished her from the early childhood. Matilda pours her thoughts how she feels about it.

The rage of fever is very real. “Bodies are piling up like firewood.” The doors are shut in your face as each family tries to stay alive behind their own walls. “The streets were ghosted, colorless and hushed.” Except lonely children without their mothers and thieves breaking into empty houses.

Loved the atmosphere of the coffeehouse, filled with “gentlemen, merchants, and politicians enjoying a cup of coffee, a bite to eat, and the news of the day.” Matilda’s grandfather, former army officer, is “the heart of all gossip and tall tales in the coffeehouse.” He is quite a character, which I enjoyed very much.

The storyline and the writing are very impressive. The plot is engrossing, moving the story forward as fast as the rage of epidemic.”

Historical fact, “In a few short weeks the city was transformed into a living nightmare, with the sick dying, the healthy paralyzed with fear, and the doctors helpless. (…) The brave people who stayed in the city and helped the sick were extraordinary.”

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Great Historical Book!

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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 epidemic. Mattie’s family owns a coffee house called the Cook Coffee House. Mattie's mother thinks that she is lazy because she sleeps too late. Mattie has to do many chores around the coffee house. Mattie is very fond of their cook, Eliza.

When the yellow fever strikes, Mattie’s friend dies. At that time not many people knew about the fever. Then Mattie’s mother gets sick with yellow fever. Mattie and Grandfather go to the country to get away from the fever. On the way there they get stopped by some doctors. The doctors check them for yellow fever. One of the doctors said that Grandfather had the fever. So they got kicked off the cart. Grandfather is weak, but Mattie is weaker so he carries her all the way back to Bush Hill, a hospital in Philadelphia.

The rest of the story tells of Mattie and Grandfather getting through the yellow fever epidemic. It shows how perseverance can help you get through hard times. It also shows how different people can unite in times of hardship.

I really liked this book even though it can get a bit slow sometimes. It throws surprises at you a lot. Another reason I loved this book is because of how much I learned about history. I could relate to this book because we are going through a pandemic right now which is similar to the yellow fever epidemic in 1793. I recommend this book to kids that are in around 6th grade.

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Froschkönigin

Geschichte einer fast vergessenen Epidemie

Reviewed in Germany 🇩🇪 on November 4, 2016

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Mattie (Matilda) ist beinahe fünfzehn und lebt mit ihrer verwitweten Mutter, dem Großvater und der freigekauften ehemaligen Sklavin Eliza in Philadelphia - im Jahre 1793 nicht nur die Hauptstadt der noch jungen Vereinigten Saaten, sondern mit etwa 40 000 Einwohnern auch deren größte Stadt. Philadelphia ist Handelsmetropole, günstig gelegen am Delaware. Diese Lage, das feucht-warme Klima des Spätsommers 1793, wird der Stadt zum Verhängnis. Es fängt relativ harmlos an - ein paar Fieberfälle, manche davon mit tödlichem Ausgang - nichts Ungewöhnliches für die Monate der Sommerhitze, so scheint es zunächst. Mattie ist anfangs ebenso unbesorgt wie die übrigen Bewohner und verfolgt ihren Traum, das florierende Cafehaus, das sie mit ihrer Mutter betreibt, zu einem der feinsten der Stadt auszubauen. Dann aber mehren sich die Fälle schwerer Erkrankungen. Das gefürchtete Gelbe Fieber greift rasant um sich und befällt arm und reich gleichermaßen. Bald ist auch Matties Familie unmittelbar betroffen, und es bleibt nur die Flucht aufs Land...

Laurie Halse Andersons "Fever 1793" erscheint, glaube ich, auf jeder Liste, die historische YA-Romane aufführt - nicht ohne Grund. Die Autorin hat die historischen Umstände und Fakten akribisch recherchiert und läuft nicht Gefahr, in Anachronismen zu verfallen - auch nicht, was ihre Protagonistin betrifft. Mattie ist eine selbstbewusste und moderne junge Frau, aber eben selbstbewusst und modern im Rahmen ihrer Zeit, sie benimmt sich nicht wie ein verkleideter Teenager aus dem 21. Jahrhundert. Insofern hat mir dieses Buch gut gefallen.
Man sollte sich aber darüber im Klaren sein - und das war ich aufgrund des Alters der Hauptperson nicht, als ich zu lesen begann - dass der Roman wohl für Leser unter 14 gedacht ist. Die Autorin möchte ihren jungen Lesern - und ihren Hauptpersonen, so scheint es - eindeutig nicht zuviel zumuten. Auch das hatte ich, nachdem ich "Wintergirls" gelesen hatte (eine ziemlich brutale Schilderung einer Magersucht-Erkrankung fast bis zum Tod der Protagonistin) nicht erwartet. Im Gegensatz dazu ist die Darstelllung des entsetzlichen Verlaufs der Gelbfieber-Epidemie, die ein Fünftel der Bevölkerung von Philadelphia das Leben kostete, recht verhalten. Zwar gibt es ein paar drastischere Beschreibungen des Krankheitsverlaufs - das aber wird dadurch wieder beschönigt, dass am Ende nur ein einziges Opfer unter den Personen, die der Leser genauer kennenlernt, zu beklagen ist, und dabei handelt es sich um eine Person, die ihr Leben gelebt hat. Eine etwas unmotiviert wirkende zarte Liebesgeschichte, die rührende Geschichte um ein kleines Waisenmädchen, und vor allem häufige Ausschmückungen mit zwei putzigen Haustieren, sorgen ebenfalls dafür, dass Andersons Buch eine etwas seltsame Mischung aus Katastrophen-Roman und Unterhaltung ist. Es ist trotzdem natürlich nicht schlecht, und manch Leser wird gerade daran Gefallen finden, dass am Ende alles gut wird, zumindest für Mattie und ihre Familie.
Vier Sterne gibt es nicht zuletzt für die Charakterzeichnung von Matties Großvater, einem Veteranen der Unabhängigkeitskriege mit "bärbeißigem Charme" - und vor allem von Eliza, mit deren Figur die Autorin der Leistung der Mitglieder der "Free African Society" ein Denkmal setzt, die selbstlos und mutig und teilweise über die eigegen Grenzen hinaus die Pflege erkrankter Mitbürger auf sich nahmen.

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Well Researched & Entertaining

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on May 4, 2016

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The research was incredible. It drew the reader straight into the world of a girl on the cusp of being a woman in a time when equality wasn't much of a thought in people's heads. I think the author outlined the emotions, the struggle, and the setting behind the outbreak brilliantly.

Mattie Cook is said to shirk her chores in the description, but I just saw a kid. She still did everything she needed to and was surrounded by people she loved. She may have taken advantage of that, but that's normal.

When the outbreak hits the city of Philadelphia, Mattie is faced with the hard facts that she might lose those around her and it forces her to grow up fast. It's said that the yellow fever outbreak took 10% of that city, which is a devastating statistic.

I enjoyed watching Mattie grow and learn to make decisions for herself. I did find the wanderings with her grandfather to be a bit tedious. It was one minute of being fine, and then things began to happen very fast, and would recover fast -- almost like the scenes weren't needed. They didn't add to Mattie or her grandfather's journey, except to delay it some. Once they found their way back to the coffee house I found things to get interesting. Suddenly, Mattie had a lot to face, and dangers that weren't just a disease. People get ugly in times of strife, and the author revealed some of the things I'd fear if trapped in a time like that.

CONCLUSION

There were plenty of twists and turns, and I think young adult readers would take a lot from the novel. The research was well done, and pulled the reader into the headspace of a fourteen year old in an extreme, and real situation.

Angela Bergmann

Historical and educational fiction

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on October 29, 2022

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We read this as part of our homeschooling curriculum. Excellent story telling, kept us hooked. Information at the back of the book helped us understand this event so much more.

CriMacc

Carino per ragazzi di scuola media

Reviewed in Italy 🇮🇹 on March 10, 2015

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Mia figlia ha apprezzato. Non e' stata entusiasta ma ha gradito. La giovanissima protagonista cresce in fretta a causa della febbre gialla e impara a cavarsela da sola e a contribuire alla sopravvivenza fisica ed economica della sua famiglia.

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Interesting read!!

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I found the historical aspect of the story really interesting. It was really easy to read and I was hooked to it from start to finish.

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