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Reader reviewed by Nicki

Fever 1793 is about a young girl named Mattie who's mother gets ill from yellow fever. She and her grandpa get seperated when she falls ill after her mother leaves to go stay with some relatives. She and her grandfather are eventually reunited when he finds her in a hospital and they return to their home in their old town. Her grandfather gets killed while trying to protect her from burglars and young Mattie has nowhere to go. That is until she finds a maid who used to help in the coffee shop her family owned. Mattie helps the maid, Eliza with her young children until the fever epidemic is over and her other returns from the country.