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Reviewer: Allie Z. '12

The year is 1793, a year to remember! Mattie Cook is a girl living with her grandfather and her mother, Lucille, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Mattie and her family live on the top of their coffeehouse. Everything seems to be perfect in Philadelphia until one morning when Polly, a girl who works at the Cook's coffeehouse, dies. Polly is not old enough to die of old age. She dies of something different- something that is about to control the whole city and kill thousands of people. The next day, a few more people die. The same thing happens the next day and the day after that. People begin to get worried. Doctors and lawyers speak of yellow fever, but no one wants to believe it. Mattie's mother, Lucille, soon becomes sick. Mattie is sure she has yellow fever. Lucille is vomiting black and red liquids, her skin is pale, her teeth are black, and her eyes are yellow and blood shot. Mattie tries to take care of her mother, but she tells her to go away. Lucille doesn't want Mattie to get sick, too.

What should Mattie do? Will she get yellow fever if she stays? If Mattie leaves, what about her mother, Lucille? Will Lucille die? Read the book to find out.

Reviewer:   Hirsh S.  '11

Mattie Cook lives above the street coffee house with her widowed mother and grandfather. Mattie runs the coffee house with her mother. But in the summer of 1793, yellow fever breaks out, and Mattie's mother is struck with it.

People are dying everywhere. Shops are closing, children losing their parents, are alone on the street. Mattie and her grandfather flee from Philadelphia but soon realize that the fever is everywhere. And Mattie is looking for a way out of it.

I would recommend this book to anyone who likes sad stories.

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Fall 2003

Matilda lives in Philadelphia with her mother and grandfather and a cook named Eliza.  Her mother owns a coffee house and has a nice business. Everything is great until Yellow Fever strikes Philadelphia.