*** Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson is an exciting book and nothing like I’ve ever really read before. It’s about a young girl named Mattie who is living through the epidemic of the yellow fever. She lives with her mother and grandfather, but when her mother falls ill and has to be taken to a farm, Mattie and her grandfather take a journey that will change Mattie’s life. The book is short and sweet and is abruptly blunt about the yellow fever. I initially thought the book would generally be about the fever itself and how a simple farm girl lived through its terrible wrath, but it was completely wrong. The book reminds the reader not to take advantage of what life has given them. I didn’t give it four stars just because the ending was a little less than I expected. It was a good ending for the book in general, but I wanted something more exciting to happen. I recommend this book to anyone who wants something short to read and has an interest in history.
***** This was an excellent book. I thought the characters were good and made a good story. I like how this book was based on real history. I didn’t like how everyone was dying but this made it interesting. I also thought in was intense when she was taking care of a child when she was really a child. She finds herself and acts like an adult. You should read this book.
****Fever 1793 was a very good and interesting book. It is about a young girl named Mattie Cook who lived with her grandpa and her mom. They lived upstairs above the coffee shop in which they owned and where they all worked. Mattie’s goal in life is to make the coffee shop the hot place to be. Eliza is a free black slave who works with them and she is working to make enough to buy her husbands freedom as well. In this book the Yellow Fever sweeps through Philadelphia killing many and leaving many homeless and without food. Many of the townspeople flee for the country hoping to avoid the fever. Does Mattie flee for the country as well or is she afraid to leave the coffee house behind?
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Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson is an exciting book and nothing like I’ve ever really read before. It’s about a young girl named Mattie who is living through the epidemic of the yellow fever. She lives with her mother and grandfather, but when her mother falls ill and has to be taken to a farm, Mattie and her grandfather take a journey that will change Mattie’s life. The book is short and sweet and is abruptly blunt about the yellow fever. I initially thought the book would generally be about the fever itself and how a simple farm girl lived through its terrible wrath, but it was completely wrong. The book reminds the reader not to take advantage of what life has given them. I didn’t give it four stars just because the ending was a little less than I expected. It was a good ending for the book in general, but I wanted something more exciting to happen. I recommend this book to anyone who wants something short to read and has an interest in history.
***** This was an excellent book. I thought the characters were good and made a good story. I like how this book was based on real history. I didn’t like how everyone was dying but this made it interesting. I also thought in was intense when she was taking care of a child when she was really a child. She finds herself and acts like an adult. You should read this book.
****Fever 1793 was a very good and interesting book. It is about a young girl named Mattie Cook who lived with her grandpa and her mom. They lived upstairs above the coffee shop in which they owned and where they all worked. Mattie’s goal in life is to make the coffee shop the hot place to be. Eliza is a free black slave who works with them and she is working to make enough to buy her husbands freedom as well. In this book the Yellow Fever sweeps through Philadelphia killing many and leaving many homeless and without food. Many of the townspeople flee for the country hoping to avoid the fever. Does Mattie flee for the country as well or is she afraid to leave the coffee house behind?
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