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 * Title: ** Fever 1793


 * Award: ** Margaret A. Edwards Award for the author (2009). According to ALA, Anderson won for “ These gripping and exceptionally well-written novels by Laurie Halse Anderson, through various settings, time periods, and circumstances, poignantly reflect the growing and changing realities facing teens. Iconic and classic in her storytelling and character development, Anderson has created for teens a body of work that continues to be widely read and cherished by a diverse audience.”


 * Summary: ** Matilda, or “Mattie” Cook lives in Philadelphia during the yellow fever epidemic of 1793. She aids her widowed mother and her grandfather in the running of a coffee house. Eliza, a former slave, assists in running the coffee house. 16-year-old Mattie has big dreams to expand the coffee house, but the yellow fever epidemic changes her perspective on life. Mattie is determined to keep everyone she loves alive as the fever spreads. Mattie travels to the country with her beloved grandfather, but along the way she gets sick. She later looses her grandfather when intruders invade the coffee house. She battles the fever, reunites with her mother and Eliza and reopens the coffee house.

RD-08-2.0.6 Students will apply the information contained in a passage to accomplish a task/procedure or answer questions about a passage
 * Curriculum Connection: ** CCD RD 08-2.0.7 Students will make predictions, draw conclusions, make generalizations or make inferences based on what is read.


 * Genre: ** Historical Fiction

Strategy #13 Imagination Recreation The teacher will have the students recreate different portions of the story either by creating a video of an event, constructing a map of Mattie’ journey, write a newspaper article of the events or change the stetting or place of the story.
 * Classroom Activity Using Developing Content Area Literacy: **


 * Citation with ISBN: ** Anderson, L. H. (2000). //Fever 1793//. New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN: 978-0-689-84891-9

Other books by Laurie Anderson: //Speak// and //Chains//