Book
2 of 2 Copies Available
- CENTRAL: Teen Collection
- OSHTEMO: Teen Collection
Fever, 1793
Call Number
- FICTION ANDE TEEN (CEN, OSH)
Publication Information
New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2000.
Physical Description
251 p. ; 22 cm.
Audience
580 Lexile
Added Uniform Title
Summary
In 1793 Philadelphia, sixteen-year-old Matilda Cook, separated from her sick mother, learns about perseverance and self-reliance when she is forced to cope with the horrors of a yellow fever epidemic.
Notes
"Book design by Steve Scott ; Manufactured in the United States of America"--t.p. verso.
Subjects
- Yellow fever > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > Juvenile fiction.
- Epidemics > Juvenile fiction.
- Survival > Juvenile fiction.
- Sick > Juvenile fiction.
- Self-reliance > Juvenile fiction.
- Families > Juvenile fiction.
- Widows > Juvenile fiction.
- Youth and death > Juvenile fiction.
- Grandfathers > Juvenile fiction.
- Philadelphia (Pa.) > Juvenile fiction.
- Pennsylvania > History > 1775-1865 > Juvenile fiction.