Fever 1793

Registered by muinteoir of San Antonio, Texas USA on 5/30/2004
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Journal Entry 1 by muinteoir from San Antonio, Texas USA on Sunday, May 30, 2004
Good for young readers

Journal Entry 2 by muinteoir at Espada National Historical Park in San Antonio, Texas USA on Sunday, May 30, 2004
Release planned for Monday, May 31, 2004 at Espada National Historical Park in San Antonio, Texas USA.

Journal Entry 3 by SanAntonioBXers from San Antonio, Texas USA on Sunday, June 20, 2004
This book did not get picked up at the Memorial Day 2004 Espada Park book release. This book is on reserve for our next mass book release.

Journal Entry 4 by SanAntonioBXers from San Antonio, Texas USA on Wednesday, May 4, 2005
choclaholic has requested to borrow this book from the community bookshelf. I've rooted it out of the bookboxes and will pass it to her the next time I see her. :)

I keep these community books in a really high shelf and closed up so I don't look at them, but choclaholic has tempted me! And I have seen this book and thought it interesting, too, so I'll probably end up reading it after her. :D

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Journal Entry 5 by synergy from San Antonio, Texas USA on Sunday, July 24, 2005
Being a biology student, the plot to this book caught my eye. Grabbing it from the community pile.

Journal Entry 6 by synergy from San Antonio, Texas USA on Sunday, April 16, 2006
2006 Book #11: Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson

From the back of the book:
During the summer of 1793, Mattie Cook lives above the family coffee shop with her widowed mother and grandfather. Mattie spends her days avoiding chores and making plans to turn the family business into the finest Philadelphia has ever seen. But then the fever breaks out.

Disease sweeps the streets, destroying everything in its path and turning Mattie's world upside down. At her feverish mother's insistence, Mattie flees the city with her grandfather. But she soon discovers that the sickness is everywhere, and Mattie must learn quickly how to survive in a city turned frantic with disease.

I'd just finished recently reading a book about "tropical" diseases, so when I picked up this book a couple of books later I found it really entertaining. Even though it's a young adult/teen book I enjoyed it and I think it did a great job of portraying what it was like growing up in the late 1700s and the types of things people had to live through from a fairly young age.

The main character, Mattie, is like any teenager today thinking that they're above doing what others tell her to do and "knows" best. But because of the disease she matures fast because the alternative is pretty much death. While I'm glad that we in the U.S. don't have to live through that type of thing anymore, it's a shame that teenagers don't mature as quickly anymore, sheltered by our good lives.

Overall I really recommend this book to get a look at life in the 1700s and the far-reaching effects of disease before antibiotics and other modern medicine.

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