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Summary: My Favorite Book
Review: This is my all time favorite book! It not only describes what it was like to view others who were suffering from the Fever, but what it was like to have the disease. The main character, Matilda, refelects me in a way. She doesn't want to be seen as a child, and often day dreams about life in the future. This book is my fav because it has real life situations, hardships, growing up, and it also has a small romance worked into the story.
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Summary: Best Book Ever
Review: It is no surprise that this is one of my 2 favorite books (the other is Julie of the Wolves). It is so great! You have to read this. As soon as I finished it, I immediately started over again. I wanted to read it again...feel all the emotions again...just plain experience it again...ENOUGH SAID??? Bottom line: Read this book because you WILL thank me!11 year old
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Summary: Fever 1793
Review: 'Fever 1793'
September 24, 2002 Fever 1793 was a great book by Laurie Halse Anderson. It takes place in Philadelphia in 1793 when the Yellow Fever was happening. One character is Matilda. She is a fourteen-year-old girl who gets yelled at by her mother tremendously. She also does a great deal of work all by herself. Eliza is the cook in the coffeehouse, but she is more like part of the family than just the cook. Grandfather, Matilda's grandfather, is in pretty much the whole story. He takes care of everyone while Matilda's mom is away. Matilda's mom is another character. She is strict when it comes to people waking up in the morning. Polly was their serving girl. Lastly, Silas is Matilda's cat. She wakes Matilda up in the morning by jumping on top of her. An event that is my favorite is when Matilda's mom comes home. I like that because it was very emotional. My favorite character is Matilda because she is always brave. She always sucks up her feelings when she has to do something for her family or friends. My favorite quote was '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.' 'Matilda Polly's...' To find out what happened to Polly READ THIS BOOK!! I liked this book tremendously. I liked it because it has a great deal of adventure in it and has feelings in it that are incredible. The type of reader who would like this book is a person who likes true stories that are somewhat sad. I think that because tremendous amounts of people suffered from the Yellow Fever and died. There are some people who survived when they had it but most people died. This book is important to read because people learn history from it. I would highly recommend this book to other people because it is a great book.
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Summary: FEVER 1793!!
Review: I thought Fever 1793 was a good book written by Laurie Halse Anderson. Fever 1793 captures your attention until the very end. Many parts of the book are unpredictable and mesmerizing. She wrote Fever 1793 to let people understand how yellow fever had effected Philadelphia. In this book, there are many facts about yellow fever and the people of this time. She definitely took a lot of time looking up information of this time period and created a realistic historical fiction story. I strongly recommend this book for everyone to read.
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Summary: So good you can't put it down!
Review: I had read Laurie Halse Anderson's other book, Speak, so I decided to try Fever 1793. It was completely different from Speak, but just as good- even better. Matilda Cook had a comfortable life for a 14 year old girl in 1793. She helped run her family's coffee house, and had a mother who was strict (but always wanted the best for her) and a fun-loving grandfather. All of a sudden, people begin to die. Rumor spreads that it's the dreaded Yellow Fever. Soon, that rumor is conformed, and people are evacuating Philedelphia in hopes to not catch the fever. When Mattie's mom catches the fever, she must be evacuated as well. Her journey begins there. This is the wonderfully emotion filled tale of how Mattie grew up in almost 3 months. I loved the way the emotions were expressed, it had a amazing effect. Although this book is very sad (but I tend to cry a little too easily...) it is very realistic. Even though we don't know exactly what happened or how a 14 year old girl might have felt, I think this is as close as it's going to get. I love the raw emotion in this book, and I highly reccomend this book to anyone who loves characters having to rediscover herself in a time of crisis.
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Summary: Hard to put down!!!
Review: Fever 1793 is a great book. I liked Mattie the best because she was brave. It was adventurous, sad, somewhat scary, and exciting. I would recommend this to mature readers eight and up.
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Summary: A great book to read
Review: Fever 1793 was a great book by Laurie Halse Anderson. It takes place in Philadelphia in 1793 when the Yellow Fever was happening. One character is Matilda. She is a fourteen-year-old girl who gets yelled at by her mother tremendously. She also does a great deal of work all by herself. Eliza is the cook in the coffeehouse. She is more like part of the family than just the cook. Grandfather, Matilda's grandfather, is in pretty much the whole story. He takes care of everyone while Matilda's mom is away. Matilda's mom is another character. She is strict when it comes to people waking up in the morning. Polly was their serving girl. Lastly, Silas is Matilda's cat. She wakes Matilda up in the morning by jumping on top of her. An event that is my favorite is when Matilda's mom comes home. I like that because it was very emotional. My favorite character is Matilda because she is always brave. She always [bottles up] her feelings when she has to do something for her family or friends...To find out what happened to Polly READ THIS BOOK!! I liked this book tremendously. I liked it because it has a great deal of adventure in it and has feelings in it that are incredible. The type of reader who would like this book is a person who likes true stories that are somewhat sad. I think that because tremendous amounts of people suffer from the Yellow Fever and die. There are some people who survived when they had it but most people died. This book is important to read because people learn the history from it. I would highly recommend this book to other people because it is a great book.
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Summary: fever 1793
Review: Any sixteen year old can relate to Mattie Cook. She and her mother argue about Mattie's chores that need to be completed, such as helping the family servant prepare food. However, what some teenagers may not be able to relate to are the hardships that the Cook family has to endure for every day survival in 1793. Mattie lives with her widowed mother and grandfather and helps work in the family owned coffee shop. Everything seems to be going well for Mattie, until the fatal yellow fever epidemic sweeps through the city, separating her family and endangering their lives.
Anderson, in my opinion, recreated historical Philadelphia in an exquisite manner. The characters and plot were believable, and the dialogue between the characters is developed in a realistic manner. Mattie like any sixteen year old is defiant and opinionated. On the other hand, her mother is portrayed how every teenager sees their parents, demanding and authoritative. Also, the language used by the author has a natural flow. For example, Mattie, in chapter one, describes a balloon as a "yellow silk bubble escaping the earth". In addition, the point of view for this powerful novel was presented by a young girl, which provided interesting insight on the scenes presented. An adult would have an entirely different perspective than Mattie did, but it was interesting to see how a child viewed what was happening in the world around her.
There are many ways that this book could be used in a classroom curriculum. Enhancing a lesson on historic Philadelphia or the late 1700's is one example of how this book could be used. Also, this novel could be used to see how Philadelphia differs from the time period that the novel was written in to modern Philadelphia. Slavery is another topic that could be explored. Overall, there are several different themes from the novel that could easily be incorporated into classroom lessons. This book was enjoyable and I would definitely choose this novel for a classroom library, and recommend it for a child to read to get a historical perspective on what happened
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Summary: A book that is hard to put down!!!
Review: Matilda Cook's life is routine while she helps her mother run the coffee house. The days are hot and filled with chores. Matilda is stricken with confusion when a friend suddenly passes away. With no time to grieve, she must continue her chores around the house and coffee house. Life for Matilda changes rapidly as death circles around the city of Philadelphia. She is left to confront death itself and the hardships to survive it. Fever 1793 captures your attention and keeps it till the end. The characters are so full of life and depth that you are drawn into them as well. Laurie Halse Anderson paints these characters in your mind and they become so alive and realistic. Anderson's use of figurative language is very beautiful, which allows you to easily comprehend the books meaning and content. This book will change the way you see the world. You will integrate the events of this book into your own experiences and views. I loved reading Fever 1793 and found it very difficult to put down. I related to the characters and the story because the setting took place in Philadelphia, which is close to home. I was shocked when I never heard of the plague that swept through Philadelphia in 1793. Fever 1793 changed the way I look at life. I am thankful for the advanced technology that resides in today's society. We have a knowledgeable understanding of disease and illness. I also could not believe that several individuals left relatives or acquaintances on the street to die. I related to the book in so many ways. I have included Fever 1793 into my own experiences with family, death, and courage. Fever 1793 can be integrated into a classroom in a variety of ways. Laurie Halse Anderson included Philadelphia in her story, which can become part of a thematic unit on history. The story will interest students and inform them of events that really took place. Upon reading the book, students can enrich their understanding by learning more about yellow fever and life in that time period. The story can also be used in a classroom with themes such as courage, plagues, survival, etc. You can also share Fever 1793 to a class for pure pleasure. I recommend this book to all types of children and adults. The vocabulary is easily comprehended, and the story line is meaningful. You will not be disappointed.
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Summary: An Example of Great Historical Fiction
Review: Fever 1793 tells the story of Mattie Cook, a fourteen-year-old girl, who lived with her widowed mother and grandfather above the family's coffee shop in Philadelphia. Mattie's life is suddenly turned upside down when yellow fever hits Philadelphia. Many people that Mattie knows become ill with yellow fever, and the city becomes an unsafe place to live. Then Mattie's mother and even Mattie come down with the fever and have to fight for their lives.
I feel that this is a book of high literary merit. Laurie Halse Anderson created very unique and believable characters. As a reader you care a lot about Mattie, and what happens to her. There is the dramatic question of whether or not Mattie and her mother will survive. The book creates a very lived through experience, creating a suspension of disbelief.
I think this book would work nicely in the classroom as an aide in a history lesson about the Fever of 1793. The children will identify better with what it must have been like to live through something like that, after reading Fever 1793. I highly recommend the use of this book.
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