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 the yellow fever epidemic in Philadelphia in 1793.
year: 2000, 2002, 2001
call number/section: 1000, 920, 6, 1790, 5, 7
subjects: yellow fever, philadelphia, fiction, epidemics, survival, historical fiction, pennsylvania, history, 1775-1865, fiction, philadelphia (pa.), pennsylvannia, history, 1775-1865, pennsylvania, philadephia, survival skills, survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc, castaways
Editions
Anderson, Laurie Halse
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers (2000)
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 the yellow fever epidemic in Philadelphia in 1793.
Schools: 65
Anderson, Laurie Halse
Aladdin Paperbacks (2002)
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.
Schools: 8
Anderson, Laurie Halse
Scholastic (2001)
In 1793 Philadephia, sixteen-year-old Matilda Cook, separated for her sick mother, learns about perseverance and self-reliance when she is forced to cope with the horrors of a yellow fever epidemic.
Schools: 3
Anderson, Laurie Halse
Schools: 0
Anderson, Laurie Halse
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.
Schools: 33
Anderson, Laurie Halse
Schools: 18