What do you do when your future suddenly takes an unexpected turn?
When you face a crisis can you learn to become resourceful and strong?
Matilda Cook is a strong-willed sixteen-year-old girl who lives in Philadelphia, which, at the end of the eighteenth century, was the nation's capital. She complains about being overworked and her mother's steadfast determination to find her a "suitable" husband.. She helps her mother and grandfather run their family's coffee house, and envisions how to make it the most prominent business establishment in the neighborhood so she can become rich. However, during the summer of 1793, the yellow fever descends on Philadelphia with a vengeance, and decimates the population. Mattie's concerns are soon forgotten, because when her mother becomes ill, the teen and her grandfather are sent to the countryside to escape the disease. When Mattie returns to Philadelphia to await the end of the epidemic, she finds that her mother has disappeared, and a once vibrant city is fraught with danger at every turn. How will Mattie survive on her own?
Fever 1793 is an exciting work of historical fiction that is based on a real-life yellow fever epidemic in Philadelphia that killed thousands of people in just a few months.The author expertly interweaves a compelling story, well-researched facts, and engaging characters.
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