Anderson, Laurie Halse. Fever 1793. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000.
Annotation:
Mattie is 14, independent and ready to experience what the city of Philadelphia has to offer her. She works hard for her family’s business and spends her limited amount of free time exploring the city with her friends, until suddenly her world rapidly changes when people start getting sick in the Fever 1793.
Review:
I currently live in Philadelphia and that was initially what drew me to this story. I enjoyed reading descriptions of places in the late 1700s that I can walk by today. It may look totally different, but it was fun for me to make the connection between the historic city in this novel to the modern city I live in. Aside from the subject of historic Philadelphia, this novel touches upon issues that each of us face through the course of growing up.
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