Mattie Cook and the Yellow Fever

        Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson is an amzaing book with vivid charcters and an exciting plot! A teenaged girl named Mattie Cook must escape Philadelphia with her grandfather while the yellow fever rages and destroys the panicked city. She has to quickly learn how to survive. Other students should read this book because it will inform them of how people lived in the late 1700s. Fever is an interesting book, and it is easy to read.





This is the book cover. It is interesting because it is not only in black and white,
but it is also in yellow which represents the yellow fever.
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O. Henry!

1.  O. Henry is the pseudonym used by William Sydney Porter.
2.  William Porter was born in 1862 and died in 1910.

3.  He grew up in Greensboro, North Carolina.

4.  One of O. Henry’s most famous stories is “The Gift of the Magi.”

5.  He attended school until he was 15, dropped out, and worked in his uncle’s drugstore.

6.  He moved to Texas in his 20s and became a clerk and bank teller.

7.  O. Henry went to jail for embezzling money.

8.  He began writing while he was in prison.

9.  He was released from jail in 1901 and moved to New York City.

10.After jail, he became a writer full time and is known for his famous short stories.

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Student Encarta O. Henry Article