Fever 1793 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780689838583)

From Fever 1793
"Where's Polly?" I asked as I dropped the bucket down the well. "Did you pass by the blacksmith's?
"I spoke with her mother, with Mistress Logan," Mother answered softly, looking at her neat rows of carrots.
"And?" I waved a mosquito away from my face.
"It happened quickly. Polly sewed by candlelight after dinner. Her mother repeated that over and over, 'she sewed by candlelight after dinner.' And then she collapsed."
I released the handle and the bucket splashed, a distant sound.
"Matilda, Polly's dead."
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 docks and creeps toward Mattie's home, threatening everything she holds dear.
As the cemeteries fill with fever victims, fear turns to 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.

Author: Laurie Halse Anderson
ISBN-10: 0689838581
ISBN-13: 9780689838583
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Language: English
Published: 09/01/2000
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.76lbs
Size: 8.70h x 5.78w x 1.00d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 4.4
Point Value: 7
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 42961 / Fever, 1793

Award: California Young Reader Medal - Nominee
Award: Georgia Children's Book Award - Nominee
Award: Rebecca Caudill Young Readers Book Award - Winner
Award: Nutmeg Book Award - Nominee
Award: Sunshine State Young Reader's Award - Nominee
Award: South Carolina Childrens, Junior and Young Adult Book Award - Nominee
Award: Iowa Teen Award - Nominee
Award: Jefferson Cup - Honor Book
Award: Massachusetts Children's Book Award - Honor Book

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Review - Children 06/15/2000 pg. 880
Publishers Weekly 07/31/2000 pg. 96
School Library Journal 08/01/2000 pg. 177
Horn Book Magazine 09/01/2000 pg. 562
Booklist 10/01/2000 pg. 332
New York Times 11/19/2000 pg. 45
Booklist 04/01/2001 pg. 1486
ALA Best Books Young Adults 01/01/2001 pg. 1365
Hornbook Guide to Children 07/01/2000 pg. 82 - Superior,Well Above Average
Booklist 12/15/2001 pg. 728
Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/2001 pg. 82 - Superior,Well Above Average
School Library Journal 08/04/2000