Laurie Halse Anderson, a New York Times bestselling author and winner of the Scott O’Dell Award for Historical Fiction, engages young readers from the perspectives of young, marginalized voices. The novel demonstrates the historical significance of the epidemic, which took an estimated five thousand lives, and gives readers a glimpse of public health crises and medical treatments available in the eighteenth century. Demonstrating the ongoing alarm over unknown illnesses during this time, Fever 1793 provides a sense of the daily life of Philadelphians in the early national period. 1961) depicts 1793 America through the eyes of Mattie, who, when the fever hits in late August, struggles to live in a city overtaken by fear. The historical novel by Laurie Halse Anderson (b. Published in 2000, Fever 1793 is a young adult novel that tells the story of a 14-year-old girl named Mattie Cook, who fights to survive the yellow fever epidemic of 1793 in Philadelphia. Philadelphia, the Place that Loves You Back.
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