Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson

Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Release date: September 2, 2000
Rating: 5/5
Synopsis:

"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 weeps 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."

Wow! This book was absolutely amazing. There wasn't a dull moment in this book. From page one I couldn't put this book down. It was well written and held my attention the whole time.

This is a historical fiction book and is about the Yellow Fever outbreak.
Mattie Cook lives in Philadelphia with her mother and grandfather and they run a coffee shop for a living. One day the fever breaks out and the first person in Mattie's family to get the fever was her mother. Her mom, Lucille, didn't want Mattie to get the fever so she told her to go with her grandfather and go to the country so she wouldn't get it. Many things happen while Mattie and her grandfather were away and one of those things was that Mattie got Yellow Fever. She did live through it but then something also happened to her grandfather. (Which I'm not gonna tell you about because you have to read it!) After Mattie and her grandfather go back to Philadelphia in hopes to find her mother (they hadn't heard from her in few weeks)
In the end the fever dies down from a frost and everything was able to get back to normal. (Or at least as normal as it could get)

I LOVED the characters in this book. From Mattie who was always forced around like a little child but held everything together and she really has a fun bubbly personality, it really came through in the book. Lucille, Eliza, (she worked for the family) Grandfather, and all of the other amazing characters throughout the book.

I highly recommend this book to everyone and I think that you will enjoy it as much as I did!