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Violence
Some
Deaths from yellow fever throughout; some violence in the epidemic setting
Language
None
No profanity
Sexual Content
None
No sexual content
Substance Use
None
No substance use
Emotional Intensity
Some
Moderate: the devastation of the epidemic and the protagonist's isolation create genuine emotional weight
What this book is about
Fourteen-year-old Matilda Cook lives above her family's coffeehouse in Philadelphia when the yellow fever epidemic of 1793 tears through the city. Anderson's YA historical fiction is meticulously researched and viscerally real about the horror of epidemic disease — the deaths, the social breakdown, and what ordinary people must do to survive. One of the finest works of American YA historical fiction.
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Yellow fever epidemic with many deaths — historically depicted with appropriate weight
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