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Fever, 1793

Title
Fever, 1793 / Laurie Halse Anderson.
Author
Anderson, Laurie Halse.
Publication
  • New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, [2004]
  • ©2000
Supplementary Content
  • Contributor biographical information
  • Publisher description

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Description
251 pages; 19 cm
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.
Subject
  • 1775-1865
  • Yellow fever > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > Juvenile fiction
  • Epidemics > Juvenile fiction
  • Survival > Juvenile fiction
  • Sick > Juvenile fiction
  • Self-reliance > Juvenile fiction
  • Families > Juvenile fiction
  • Widows > Juvenile fiction
  • Youth and death > Juvenile fiction
  • Grandfathers > Juvenile fiction
  • Yellow fever > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > Fiction
  • Epidemics > Fiction
  • Survival > Fiction
  • Epidemics
  • Families
  • Grandfathers
  • Self-reliance
  • Sick
  • Survival
  • Widows
  • Yellow fever
  • Youth and death
  • Philadelphia (Pa.) > Juvenile fiction
  • Pennsylvania > History > 1775-1865 > Juvenile fiction
  • Pennsylvania > History > 1775-1865 > Fiction
  • Philadelphia (Pa.) > Fiction
  • Pennsylvania
  • Pennsylvania > Philadelphia
Genre/Form
  • Historical fiction.
  • Fiction.
  • History.
  • Juvenile works.
Note
  • "Book design by Steve Scott"--Title page verso.
Audience (note)
  • Young Adult.
  • Age 10 up
  • 580
Awards (note)
  • Lifetime Achievement in Literature for Young Readers, ALA.
  • ALA Best Books for Young Adults, 2001.
  • California Young Readers Medal Nominee for Middle School/Junior High, 2004
  • Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book Award, 2003.
Call Number
J FIC A
ISBN
  • 0689838581
  • 9780689838583
LCCN
00032238
OCLC
44089242
Author
Anderson, Laurie Halse.
Title
Fever, 1793 / Laurie Halse Anderson.
Publisher
New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, [2004]
©2000
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Audience
Young Adult.
Age 10 up
Study Program
Accelerated Reader/Renaissance Learning UG 4.4 7.
Accelerated Reader 4.4.
Reading Counts! 7.6.
Audience
580 Lexile.
Study Program
Accelerated Reader AR UG 4.4 7 42961.
Awards
Lifetime Achievement in Literature for Young Readers, ALA.
ALA Best Books for Young Adults, 2001.
California Young Readers Medal Nominee for Middle School/Junior High, 2004
Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book Award, 2003.
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Chronological Term
1775-1865
Research Call Number
J FIC A
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