Fever 1793
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Summary from Goodreads:
August, 1793. Fourteen-year-old Mattie Cook is ambitious, adventurous, and sick to death of listening to her mother. Mattie has plans of her own. She wants to turn the Cook Coffeehouse into the finest business in Philadelphia, the capital of the new United States.
But the waterfront is abuzz with reports of disease. "Fever" spreads from the dock and creeps toward Mattie's home, threatening everything she holds dear.
As the cemeteries fill with fever victims, fear turns into panic, and thousands flee the city. Then tragedy strikes the coffeehouse, and Mattie is trapped in a living nightmare. Suddenly, her struggle to build a better life must give way to something even more important—the fight to stay alive.
August, 1793. Fourteen-year-old Mattie Cook is ambitious, adventurous, and sick to death of listening to her mother. Mattie has plans of her own. She wants to turn the Cook Coffeehouse into the finest business in Philadelphia, the capital of the new United States.
But the waterfront is abuzz with reports of disease. "Fever" spreads from the dock and creeps toward Mattie's home, threatening everything she holds dear.
As the cemeteries fill with fever victims, fear turns into panic, and thousands flee the city. Then tragedy strikes the coffeehouse, and Mattie is trapped in a living nightmare. Suddenly, her struggle to build a better life must give way to something even more important—the fight to stay alive.
This is a highly detailed and engrossing YA novel about the Yellow Fever epidemic of 1793.
Both heart breaking and heartwarming, this is the type of book that will linger in the mind, long after the last page has been turned.
Both heart breaking and heartwarming, this is the type of book that will linger in the mind, long after the last page has been turned.
