Car was at the mechanic's shop getting an oil change, so I took the kids to the library to wait. While there, I picked up this book and decided it would be a good fit for a bingo square "Historical Fiction." Seriously, this bingo card is going to fill up with YA/MG titles the way I am going. Anywa...
I kept my eyes closed, trying to see Polly happy, joking, maybe stealing a kiss with Matthew, then bursting through the door to tell me. It couldn't be real. How could Polly be dead? - Chapter 3 Some doctors warn we may see a thousand dead before it's over. There are forty thousand people living i...
Find my thoughts on all things books and reading at Read, Run, RambleI read this book with my daughter who chose it as her Historical Fiction book report read. Each of us checked out a copy from our local library (shout out to the fabulous Johnson County Public Library) and each day I would make sur...
I decided after reading Wintergirls and Speak that I wanted to read all of Laurie Halse Anderson’s books. So I’ve been making my way through them. I plan to pick up Catalyst when I go back to the library. I was a little nervous about reading this one. I thought I might not be as interested in it sin...
This was an enjoyable read as I get sucked into the world of young Mattie during the pestilence of 1793. The writing was simple enough to understand, but it is very engaging that you would get to love the characters. You feel a snowball of emotions - happiness, panic, grief, hope, determination - co...
Despite the fact that this is actually a young adults’ book I really enjoyed it. The story is about Mattie, a 14-year-old girl living in Philadelphia, 1793, during an outbreak of yellow fever. I had not heard of this epidemic before and was impressed by the amount of detail the author included in ...
NB: The ebook version has horrible OCR errors.In 1783, a yellow fever epidemic killed about a fifth of the population of Philadelphia, which at that time was the capitol of the United States, as well as one of its largest cities. An unknown but probably large percentage of the dead were probably kil...
This was a great book. Accurate historical fiction based on the Yellow Fever epidemic of 1793....totally my idea of a perfect read.The story is conveyed through the eyes of Mattie, a 14 year old girl who lives in a coffeehouse run by her widowed mother and paternal grandfather. When the fever strike...
I really enjoyed this book, particularly the historical information at the end. It was a cool adventure story but I wish we'd seen a little more of the disease itself. But the fear and the desertion of the cities was well done.
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