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Summary: In 1793 Philadelphia, sixteen-year-old Matilda Cook, separated
from her sick mother, learns about perseverance and self-reliance when
she is forced to cope with the horrors of a yellow fever epidemic.
ISBN 978-0-689-83858-3 (hc)
[1. Yellow fever—Pennsylvania—Philadelphia—Fiction. 2. Epidemics—Fiction.
3. Pennsylvania—History—1775-1865—Fiction. 4. Philadelphia (Pa.)—Fiction.
5. Survival—Fiction.] I. Title
PZ7.A5438Fe 2000 [Fic]—dc21 00-032238
ISBN 978-0-689-84891-9 (pbk)
eISBN-13: 978-1-4424-4307-5