Fever 1793

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Summary: Fever 1793
Review: Fever 1793 is a good book based on an actual event. It's about a girl, Mattie Cook, who finds herself in the middle of a yellow fever epidemic in Philadelphia( From the title, you know that the year is 1793). With many twists and turns in the plot, Laurie Halse Anderson puts you in the book right next to the main character.

In my opnion, the best part of the book is the end. The action seems to subside and settle down. Just when you think, "Oh, they will live happily ever after," the final event blows you away.

The author did a superb job on the story elements. The characters come alive and you can relate to them very easily. You go inside the book. The resolution jumps out at you and gets you off guard. Another little tid bit that I liked about this book is that it gave additional information about the actual event. It listed doctors, people, special events, other facts and much more about the epidemic in 1793. It helped me to get it all in perspective. I learned something and read a great book all at one time!

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Summary: Great Book!
Review: I thought this was a really good book. You never know what will happen until it happens. Sometimes I was on the edge of my seat because I didn't know what was to come. I recommend this book to anyone how likes historical type books.

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Summary: Best book I've read for a long time
Review: This book was really sad but the girl was really strong. It is about a fever that has swept throught their town and is slowly spreading. Many people in her family are sick and she takes care of them...I don't want to give away the ending!The book is historical fiction and in the back it tells what is true. Read this book.

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Summary: Gotta Check it Out
Review: This book is a great book. The author's choices of words are magnificent. This a book about a fever that spreads around all Pilidelpea. One of the main characters is a girl that loses her grandfather, and is determend to find her mother again. I will not tell you what the ending is but I will tell you that if you are not in for some heartbreak then you might want to wait a while.

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Summary: The review of Fever 1793
Review: Well over all i thought that this book was an excellent book. I was so interested in this book that it was hard to put down.It started out slow the first couple of pages the it was just weird that how in the first couple of pages a family member dies.Every one comes down with yellow fever and dies .but some people are saved and cured so i thought it was a good book.

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Summary: The time of fever
Review: This book is FEVER 1793. It was an interesting book that makes you feel like you are in Philadelphia in the year of 1793. It is an adventure to see what the people do and how they look. This book is for kids who love to read.
In this book a girl named Matilda Cook, mostly called Mattie, works at a coffee house called The Cook Coffee. Her mother owns it. Mattie has a mind of her own and has big plans for the coffee house but, her plans change when the fever hits. People start dying and some move away. Mattie is sick and her mother vanishes. You don't know what's going to happen next. You want to read this book to see if Mattie dies and if she will ever see her mother again.
Laurie Halse Anderson does a really great job on keeping the suspense. If you love historical fiction and one of your favorite authors is Laurie Halse Anderson I definitely recommend this book.

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Summary: Shows a child that a good book need not have pictures
Review: I wanted my girl to realize that books are written that provide all the pictures you need by creating them in the reader's head. My bright 11 year old, though balky at the purchase, has not been able to put it down. I don't expect her to stop liking magazines or celebrity trash talk, but this book is an excellent way to introduce a child to real literature. I recommend it highly.

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Summary: My Review on "Fever 1793"
Review: This book took place in Philadelphia of the year 1793 in the beggining of Aguast. The main charater is fourteen-year-old Matlida Cook, better known as Mattie Cook. This is a nonfictinal book about the yellow fever plague in Philadelphia and other nearby cities at this time. Althow the main character and her family might by fictional, the plague was very real.
I think this is a very good and well writin book. I liked this book because the how Laurie Halse Anderson write about the fever and there way of life during the horrible plague. The way she writes makes you fell like you there suffering with the other people. And thats my review on the book: Fever 1793.

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Summary: I liked it, though not as much as "Speak".
Review: "Fever 1793" is about a fourteen-year-old girl named Mattie who lives in Philadelphia in, you guessed it, 1793. She and her mom and grandfather run a coffeehouse. Mattie starts out as a pretty ordinary girl, but then the yellow fever epidemic strikes and thousands become ill. Mattie gets sick, but survives. Her mother disappears. In running the coffeehouse by herself, and tending to the sick and dying, Mattie grows up in just a few months to become a right proper responsible young woman. I actually liked the beginning best. Mattie's voice was quite sardonic. "By the time they had me tightened, pinned, and locked into my clothes, I could feel my stomach rubbing against my backbone." The book was funny and sad at the same time. I hope Ms. Anderson continues to write novels as good as this!

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Summary: An amazingly powerful historical fiction novel.
Review: August 1793 in Philadelphia was well until the deadly yellow fever epidemic was born. At first, it was a rumor, than a rarity -- but it began to spread throughout the country, and no one was safe from the fever. Hope soon withered into horrible despair among the homes everywhere in Philadelphia. Mattie Cook, fourteen years old, miraculously is drawn away from the disease, but members of her family, and those she loves, is inflicted with the fever -- and as survival becomes a credential in her

life, she must save the people she wants to live longer. But the epidemic worsens throughout Philadelphia. As the months pass by, the fever and deaths greatly increase, and Mattie is almost at the depths of despair. But she must be strong, and boldly face death -- through thick and thin, and through the worst moments of the summer. Fever 1793 is powerful historical fiction thriller. Mattie is a bold and well-liked heroine. It is a novel about hope, despair, danger, death, and coping with the losses and victories of the one of the worst epidemics in history. It is one of the best books I ever read, and I couldn't put down this powerfully gripping and well-written story.