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Book Review of Fever 1793

Fever 1793
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This yellow fever epidemic is a true story during the summer of 1793 Maddie Cook lives above the family coffee shop with her widowed mother and grandfather Maddie Spencer days, avoiding chores and making plans to turn the family business into the finest Philadelphia has ever seen, but they had the fever breaks out Disease, sweeps the streets, destroying everything in its path, and turning Maddieâs world upside down at her fever mother's insistence Maddie leaves the city with her grandfather, but she soon discovers the sicknesses everywhere and Maddie Musler quickly how to survive in a city turned frantic with disease.