Fever 1793
Ranked #4 in Diseases, Ranked #9 in Teen Mystery — see more rankings.
It's late summer 1793, and the streets of Philadelphia are abuzz with mosquitoes and rumors of fever. Down near the docks, many have taken ill, and the fatalities are mounting. Now they include Polly, the serving girl at the Cook Coffeehouse. But fourteen-year-old Mattie Cook doesn't get a moment to mourn the passing of her childhood playmate. New customers have overrun her family's coffee shop, located far from the mosquito-infested river, and Mattie's concerns of fever are all but overshadowed by dreams of growing her family's small business into a thriving enterprise. But when the fever... more
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Rankings by Category
Fever 1793 is ranked in the following categories:
- #49 in 10-Year-Old
- #47 in 11-Year-Old
- #30 in 12-Year-Old
- #51 in 5th Grade
- #49 in 6th Grade
- #29 in 7th Grade
- #68 in Award-Winning
- #20 in Courage
- #21 in Dying
- #30 in Fear
- #22 in Girl
- #36 in Historical Fiction
- #39 in Middle School
- #11 in Pandemic
- #48 in Public Health
- #57 in Quarantine
- #46 in Rated
- #50 in Social Studies
- #33 in Survival
- #21 in Teen Adventure
- #89 in Teen Fiction
- #12 in Teen Girls
- #41 in Used
- #51 in Young Adult Mystery
- #26 in Young Teen
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