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Book Review of Fever 1793

Fever 1793
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During the summer of 1793, Mattie Cook lives above the family coffee shop with her widowed mother and grandfather. Mattie spends her days avoiding chores and making plans to turn family business into the finest Philadelphia has ever seen. But then the fever breaks out, disease sweep the streets, destroying everything, and her mother is infected. Read as Mattie and her grandfather escape the country.