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The Library of Congress has cataloged the hardcover edition as follows: Anderson, Laurie Halse.

Fever 1793 / by Laurie Halse Anderson. p. cm.

Summary: In 1793 Philadelphia, sixteen-year-old Matilda Cook, separated from her sick mother, learns about perseverance and self-reliance when she is forced to cope with the horrors of a yellow fever epidemic. ISBN 978-0-689-83858-3 (hc)

[1. Yellow fever--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--Fiction. 2. Epidemics--Fiction. 3. Pennsylvania--History--1775-1865--Fiction. 4. Philadelphia (Pa.)--Fiction.

5. Survival--Fiction.] I. Title PZ7.A5438Fe 2000 [Fic]--dc21 00-032238

ISBN 978-0-689-84891-9 (pbk) eISBN-13: 978-1-4424-4307-5

This book is for my father, Reverend Frank A. Halse Jr,

the finest man I know. --L.H.A

Contents

CHAPTER ONE: August 16th, 1793 CHAPTER TWO: August 16th, 1793 CHAPTER THREE: August 16th, 1793 CHAPTER FOUR: August 16th, 1793 CHAPTER FIVE: August 24th, 1793 CHAPTER SIX: August 30th, 1793 CHAPTER SEVEN: August 30th, 1793 CHAPTER EIGHT: September 2nd, 1793 CHAPTER NINE: September 2nd, 1793 CHAPTER TEN: September 6th, 1793 CHAPTER ELEVEN: September 7th, 1793 CHAPTER TWELVE: September 8th, 1793 CHAPTER THIRTEEN: September 10th, 1793 CHAPTER FOURTEEN: September I2th-20th, 1793 CHAPTER FIFTEEN: September 22nd, 1793 CHAPTER SIXTEEN: September 24th, 1793 CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: September 24th, 1793 CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: September 25th, 1793 CHAPTER NINETEEN: September 26th, 1793 CHAPTER TWENTY: September 27th, 1793 CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE: September 27th, 1793 CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO: September 27th, 1793 CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE: September 28th, 1793 CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR: October 1st, 1793 CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE: October 14th, 1793 CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX: October 23rd, 1793 CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN: October 30th, 1793 CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT: November 10th, 1793 CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE: November 10th, 1793 EPILOGUE: December 11th, 1793 APPENDIX Acknowledgements

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