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Summary: The Best Book Ever!
Review: Fever 1793 is the best book ever! Once I started reading it I couldn't put it down! Even my mom liked the book! I Reccomend it to everyone!
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Summary: Fever 1793
Review: Fever 1793 is a book you just can't put down. Mattie, a 14 year old girl living in Philadelphia, seems to have a wonderful life, daydreaming while her mother lectures her on how to run the family coffee house. In August, a fever is rumored to be in town. Deaths are being heard of all over. People start fleeing their beautiful homes to friends and families in the country, hoping fresh air would be the cure to the fever. The fever that is destroying the town is called Yellow fever. The streets of Philadelphia turn cold, black and abandoned. Mattie and her grandfather are forced to leave the city when her very own mother falls ill with sickness. That is only the beginning of this book. When Mattie falls ill, how will she fight for survival? Will she ever see her mother again? Or what about the coffeehouse cook, Eliza? What would happen if she never reaches her destination? Will she ever see her own house again? I give it five out of five stars.
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Summary: FEVER 1793
Review: I am twelve years old and I am in the eighth grade. I had to do a book report for social studies on a historical fiction novel. I read, "FEVER 1793". It is excellent. The fourteen year old girl, Mattie Cook is stuck in the middle of a living nightmare. Philadelphia's population is decreasing because a deadly fever, called yellow fever is threatening everyone there. Laurie Halse Anderson wrote so magnificently that it was almost like I was there. IF YOU WANT A GOOD HISTORICAL FICTION BOOK READ "FEVER 1793"!!! It is awesome.
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Summary: Fever Keeps the Heat Up!!
Review: Fever is an excellent book that I recommend to people who like reading about life in the late 1700's when the United States of America first came into existence. It can be a history lesson for others also as it shows the hardships of the colonial times. Fever also shows young adults how a disease can wipe out the nations highest populated city of that time in less than a few months.
I like this book because it describes clearly how easy we have it today with all of the modern marvels and medicines of our time. When this conflict happened in America, we didn't have all of the helpful things and cures that we have today.
Anderson's book Fever makes you think and relate to because even though our cultures are different, with the Aids epidemic, it can hit very close to home.
I rated it four stars out of five because even though the author gave it all to make this a great book, it seems to go very fast and not enough depth into it. For example, when someone close to the main character dies from Yellow Fever, I hardly felt sad at all.
Even though it didn't have as much felling as I hoped, this was an excellent book to read. If you have the chance to read it, I hope you do!
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Summary: loved it
Review: I LOVED this book it had more surprises than any book i have ever read. i enjoyed reading about mattie and her adventures during the time of yellow fever. THIS BOOK IS AWSOME!!!!!!!!!!!
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Summary: better than any history book ive EVER read!
Review: once you open this book, you cant close it. you'll be sure to cry, and laugh. my heart was thumping througout the whole book. i dont know any other way to say it but readers of all ages will enjoy it--even non-readers. i would give this book 5 stars--more like 500 stars.
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Summary: Phenomenal
Review: This book is absolutely fantastic. I loved every page of it. The storyline hooks you in from the first page to the last. Although there are some parts that are slower, you still can't put the book down!
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Summary: equally contagious as the epidemic itself
Review: this book falls from one well-written sentence to the next, and added suspence. without the "teenage romance" or modern girl's mind, this becomes Anderson's best.
the setting is painted painfully with sickness, but the message is well shown to the reader.
the girl, her mother, and grandfather fight the desiese that is crumbling Philadelphia. read with this young girl and you will be captured by her love for her home.
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Summary: Fever 1793 by Anna
Review: In the novel, Fever 1793 by Laurie Anderson, Matilda is lazy and just wants everything to come easily. Then, suddenly, yellow fever strikes, and the town of Philadelphia began to empty out. Not wanting to leave their coffee shop, their only source of money and survival, Matilda's family decides to stay in the deserted town until the frost comes. But, as Matilda's mother becomes sick with fever, she forces Matilda and her grandfather to travel to a family friend out in the country, away from the river and the fever. As they near their destination, they realize that they yellow fever just may have its hands on Matilda's grandfather and they are not allowed inside the town's protection. Matilda has to make the decision of walking 10 miles back home or to just give up, but Matilda may have the fever herself. This book gives a lot of information on the yellow fever in 1793, and also demonstrates that you should never take things for granted, and never give up.
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Summary: fascinating yet distant
Review: This is a fascinating account of a devastating fever epidemic in Philadelphia, then the capital of the United States, in 1793. Nearly overnight-- people contract the disease and die within the hour-- Mattie's life goes from being a slightly overworked teenage daughter of a proprietor of a successful coffee house, to a young woman struggling to survive in a city that's taken on the bleakness of a Mad Max film.Yet somehow we never come as close to Mattie as we might, or as we do with the main character in Anderson's SPEAK. Mattie's thoughts are so much on survival and on food that at times the book feels a bit like a travelogue of a disaster. Salvation, when it comes, also seems abrupt. In the end, this is a quick way to get an immediate feel for a terrible time in history, but although we are told a lot about Mattie, her family, her hopes and dreams, somehow she stays elusive. Emotionally, the book is a little disappointing, but it's still well worth a read.
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