Fever 1793
- ISBN-10
- 0689838581
- ISBN-13
- 9780689838583
- Series
- Fever 1793
- Category
- Juvenile Nonfiction
- Pages
- 251
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2000-09
- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster
- Author
- Laurie Halse Anderson
Description
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. 10,000 first printing.
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