Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson
Maddie Cook feels like a slave in her mother's coffee house during the hot summer of 1793, she longs for excitement, change, anything really. So when rumors of a fever are heard amoung the crowd that frequent the coffee house Maddie isn't anticipating that this will be the most profound change of her life.
The "fever" turns out to be Yellow Fever, and it spreads slowly and steadily through the inhabitants of Philadelphia (most say that it's a death sentence). The rich flee to the countryside (assuming they'll be safer there), looters and thugs, sick people and corpses are those left in the city. This illness makes strangers and enemies out of family and friends. The danger is great for a independent minded girl like Maddie who will have some hard choices to make during the summer of 1793.
Read about the 1793 Yellow Fever epidemic, an event that killed 10% of Philadelphia population in 10 months, through the eyes of a girl at the centre of it all.
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