Title: Fever 1793
Author: Laurie Halse Anderson
Genre: Young Adult, Historical Fiction
Published: September 1, 2000
In 1793 there was a Yellow Fever outbreak in Philadelphia. Over the course of three months one in every ten people died. This story is about a girl, Mattie, trying to survive.
This is not my usual type of story. I only read it because it fit the criteria of a challenge I was trying to do. That being said I did become emotionally invested in the characters. I came very close to crying a couple of times.
I found it difficult to try and imagine living through something like that. I honestly don't know how I would handle myself. I think I would have been one of the people to have fled or maybe one of the people to get sick and not make it. I am not sure I have the character to be able to not only survive, but be able to help others as Mattie and Eliza did.
I really liked how it ended. I was impressed with the personality growth of Mattie through the story. In the beginning she was a child who thought she was grown up. By the end she was an adult who had not only survived, but had come out stronger and had the ability to decide what she wanted.
Overall I gave this book 4 stars out 5.
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