... readers can really relate to. While reading the book, you feel drawn towards and close to our heroine, Mattie. Historically accurate and excellent at describing vivid and bone chilling images, Laurie Halse Anderson puts the reader smack-dab into 1793 and onto the streets of Philadelphia. Mattie's father had dreams about owning their own coffeehouse. Bustling with people from all over the city ... beginning to strive towards her dream; running the Cook Coffeehouse and turning it into the city's hotspot. A lot of history is integrated into the story. Although this is a fictional story, La...

• Word Count: 655
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

There's suffering. There's sickness. There's vomiting. There's blood. There's even death. Just when you think you can get way from the terror in Philadelphia, it gets you and it gets your family while your each sleeping in your own little beds, dreaming of fairies and marshmallows, and the boy down the road. You have no idea it is here, and you have no idea it would come for you it's the yellow fever and nothing less. The setting of this story is in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in the year of 1793. Philadelphia is a peaceful town, well actually the capital of the newly found United States. But...

• Word Count: 768
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School