Name: fever 1793 (in English)
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Author: Laurie Halse Anderson
ISBN: 9780689838583

Type

Physical Book

Author

Laurie Halse Anderson

Illustrated by

Lori Earley

Publisher

Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers

Language

English

Pages

251

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

22.1 x 14.7 x 2.5 cm

Weight

0.34 kg.

ISBN

0689838581

ISBN13

9780689838583

Synopsis "fever 1793 (in English)"

From Fever 1793 "Where's Polly?" I asked as I dropped the bucket down the well. "Did you pass by the blacksmith's? "I spoke with her mother, with Mistress Logan," Mother answered softly, looking at her neat rows of carrots. "And?" I waved a mosquito away from my face. "It happened quickly. Polly sewed by candlelight after dinner. Her mother repeated that over and over, 'she sewed by candlelight after dinner.' And then she collapsed." I released the handle and the bucket splashed, a distant sound. "Matilda, Polly's dead." August 1793. Fourteen-year-old Mattie Cook is ambitious, adventurous, and sick to death of listening to her mother. Mattie has plans of her own. She wants to turn the Cook Coffeehouse into the finest business in Philadelphia, the capital of the new United States. But the waterfront is abuzz with reports of disease. "Fever" spreads from the docks and creeps toward Mattie's home, threatening everything she holds dear. As the cemeteries fill with fever victims, fear turns to panic, and thousands flee the city. Then tragedy strikes the coffeehouse, and Mattie is trapped in a living nightmare. Suddenly, her struggle to build a better life must give way to something even more important -- the fight to stay alive.

Laurie Halse Anderson

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(Nueva York, 1961). Autora best seller del New York Times, ha sido ampliamente reconocida por saber abordar como ningún otro escritor temas difíciles con humor y sensibilidad. Ha recibido numerosos premios y distinciones entre los que destacan el de la American Library Association por su significativa contribución a la literatura juvenil.

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