1. Fever 1793 - By: Laurie Halse Anderson
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