tells the story of fourteen-year-old Matilda "Mattie"
Cook, who lives with her widowed mother and grandfather above their coffee shop in Philadelphia
in 1793. Like any carefree teenager, she is more interested in having fun than in cleaning and
doing chores, but her world is soon forever changed when the very contagious, fatal yellow fever
breaks out throughout the city.
We see the devastating effects on the citys
population through Mattie's eyes,...
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