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__Fever, 1793__, by Laurie Halse Anderson ISBN: 0-689-83858-1 c2000 243 pages R.L. 4.4

-rules on page 58 -pages 61-62...where they figure out that the woman in the wheelbarrow is mom!
 * Good sections to read aloud:**

In 1793 Philadelphia, sixteen-year-old Matilda Cook, separated from her sick mother, and then her sick grandfather, learns about perseverance and self-reliance when she is forced to cope with the horrors of a yellow fever epidemic.
 * Summary:**

This is based on true events from that time period, and at the end of the book there is an appendix with more information from then.

YA Fiction--historical fiction; yellow fever; Pennsylvania; Philadelphia; epidemics; survival
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