Fever, 1793

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Label

Fever, 1793

Statement of responsibility

Laurie Halse Anderson

Creator

• trueAnderson, Laurie Halse
• Anderson, Laurie Halse

Subject

• truePhiladelphia, Pennsylvania -- History -- 18th Century
• Epidemics -- Fiction
• trueHistorical fiction
• Large type books
• truePennsylvania -- History -- 1775-1865
• Pennsylvania -- History -- 1775-1865 -- Fiction
• Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Fiction
• trueSixteen-year-old girls
• trueSurvival
• Survival -- Fiction
• trueTeenage girls
• trueYellow fever
• Yellow fever -- Pennsylvania | Philadelphia -- Fiction
• true1790s -- 1790 -- 1799
• true18th century -- 1701 -- 1800
• trueClassics
• trueEarly America (1784-1819) -- 1784 -- 1819
• trueEpidemics

Genre

• trueClassics
• Fiction
• trueHistorical fiction

Language

eng

Summary

In 1793 Philadelphia, sixteen-year-old Matilda Cook, separated from her sick mother, learns about perseverance and self-reliance when she is forced to cope with the horrors of a yellow fever epidemic

Storyline

• truePlot-driven

Tone

• trueStrong sense of place
• trueSerious

Writing style

• trueRichly detailed

Character

• trueStrong female

Award

• Great Lakes Great Books Award (Michigan), Grades 4-5, 2003.
• Rebecca Caudill Young Reader's Book Award (Illinois), 2003.
• YALSA Best Books for Young Adults, 2001

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

[Fic]

Index

no index present

Intended audience

580

Intended audience source

Lexile

LC call number

PZ7.A54385

LC item number

Fe 2001

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580

Literary form

fiction

http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/minGradeLevel

• 6
• 10

Reading level

4.4

Study program name

Accelerated Reader

Target audience

juvenile