Dillon's Book Review #1

My book Fever by Laurie Halse Anderson takes place in Philadelphia in 1793.  Maddie wakes up with her mother yelling for her to get up and work at their coffee shop called Cook's Coffee Shop.  Soon she finds out that her friend, Polly is dead; a week later another 64 people have perished.  Maddie and Grandfather tried to move to a new town to stay safe; however, the people protecting the town thought Maddie's grandfather had the yellow fever, so they are not allowed into the town.  They they are saved by a hospital by feeding and caring for Maddie and Grandfather.  Maddie and Grandfather went back to the coffee house and found the place vandalized; they lived there anyways for a couple of days before robbers broke in and killed Grandfather.  Mattie goes and tries to find help when she finds a little girl named Nell.  Eliza, a worker at Free African Society, takes care of Nell and Maddie.  After the fever passed, Maddie's mother comes back to her.  Maddie was lucky to have survive the fever of 1793.


From http://thebookowl.blogspot.com/2009/08/fever-1793-by-laurie-halse-anderson.html

I thought the book Fever by Laurie Halse Anderson was a good book and I would recommend it to other book readers.  The characters in the book I was interested in if they died or got hurt.  The author wrote the book good using good description and a lot of action.  I thought the story was entertaining by what was included in the story.  I liked the idea of the book because the subject was exciting.  I think everybody should read this book.

The theme of the story is person vs. nature.  I think that because Maddie had to survive from nature.  Nature tries to kill Maddie because of the Yellow Fever.  The Fever also tries to kill Maddie through starvation.  Nature tried to kill her from heat waves that caused her to become dehydrated.  That is what I think the theme of the book is.