Author:
Anderson, Laurie Halse.
Imprint:New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2000.
Description:251 p. ; 22 cm.
Note: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.
