The Horn Book Magazine, September 1st, 2000
Laurie Halse Anderson Fever 1793 252 pp. Simon 9/00 ISBN 0-689-83858-1 16.00 (Middle School)
For fourteen-year-old Mattie Cook, the epidemic begins with the news of the sudden and unexpected death of her childhood friend Polly. It is summer 1793, and yellow fever is sweeping through Philadelphia; the death toll will reach five thousand (ten percent of the city's population) before the frost. Mattie, her mother, and grandfather run a coffeehouse on High Street, and when others flee the city, they choose to stay--until Mattie's mother is stricken. Sent away by her mother to escape contagion, ...
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