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Fever 1793
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has any body read this book b4!!! it is soooo good!!!!!! its by Laurie Halse Anderson.!! so good!
submitted by Claire B., age 10ish, Princeton,Wi
(June 25, 2009 - 8:38 am)
(June 25, 2009 - 8:38 am)
I read some, but then they started talking about bleeding people. I stopped because it made my stomach queasy. A girl in my class read it all, though.
(June 25, 2009 - 6:08 pm)
We read it in homeschooling. It was very good, but so sad. :( Still, it was really well-written. My mom even liked it on a grown-up level.
(June 26, 2009 - 7:33 am)
I think I was nine when I tried to read it... if I remember correctly, I was turned off by a) excessive death (which wouldn't bother me now) b) the hi-fi genre, which I'm prejudiced against, and c) the giant creepy picture of a yellow eye on the front, which was moderately scary and also Eragon-esque (and when something seems Eragon-esque, it's often a good idea to put it down).
Did anyone understand that or were there too many parentheses?
(June 26, 2009 - 12:26 pm)
Never read it, what's it about? I like historical fiction - and Eragon-esque books.
(June 26, 2009 - 3:56 pm)
It's about the yellow fever plague of 1793 in Philadelphia. It's really sad, but well-written. And, um, I've never read Eragon, but from what I've heard, it's NOTHING like that. Just a heads-up if you're opening the book expecting another Eragon.
(June 26, 2009 - 5:08 pm)
Y'know, Ima, I'd totally argue with that, but right now I'm trying to help two fourteen-year-olds manage a household and six kids under the age of ten... so I'm a bit occupied.
(June 26, 2009 - 5:51 pm)
*sympathetic smile* Hope it's going well.
(June 28, 2009 - 5:31 pm)
I really liked it, but apparently, nobody else did :( :) it's about the yellow fever in 1793 (see title) and it's first person from this 14-year-old girl's point of view in Pennsylvania (I think) and her mom owns a coffe shop and they live above it....and it's reallllly good, I think at least......buuuttt,
WARNING: IF YOU HAVE A AVERSION TO BLOOD AND/OR SICKNESS AND DON'T LIKE BOOKS THAT HAVE PEOPLE DYING IN THEM AND/OR SAD SCENES.....THIS BOOK IS NOT FOR YOU!
(June 27, 2009 - 8:52 am)
I liked it. But I agree with the warning.
(June 29, 2009 - 7:44 am)
Admin, why did you un-bold the 'I'? Was that offensive?
Not that I know of, Lena. It may have been a technical glitch. -Admin
(June 29, 2009 - 5:10 pm)
I really enjoyed it. It's about a sixteen-year-old girl named Matilda Cook. She is separated from her sick mother and must learn
about perseverance and self-reliance when she is forced to cope with
the horrors of the yellow fever epidemic in Philadelphia. It isn't gory or anything. Many people died during that time and this book illistrates it very well.
(June 27, 2009 - 11:49 pm)
i thought she was 14....
(July 9, 2009 - 2:08 pm)
i like this book too!!! i love historical fiction :)
(September 8, 2010 - 12:57 pm)