"My eyes closed. It was never going to stop. We would suffer endlessly,with no time to rest,no time to sleep."

The book Fever is a book about the struggle of a young girl named Mattie. She lives with her mother and grandfather,but her father died when she was 3. A bad plague breaks out in Pennsylvania killing many leaving few to survive and live. The food supplies are fading,there is no safe place. Mattie turns to other places to live,but there are limited places that will let them in. Her mother gets the plague and tells Mattie and her grandfather to leave to the Ludington's farm. But before they get there Mattie's grandfather suddenly comes down with the fever. They later are at Bush Hill,where Mattie gets over the fever and her grandfather turns out not to have the plague. After they recovered,they returned to the coffeehouse and see that it has been robbed. One night,Mattie gets too hot and opens a window,but in the middle of the night robbers come in and try to rob the place. After Mattie chases them,away she comes back and see's her grandfather died. She moves in with Eliza and her family,where she helps out with cooking and cleaning. Eliza's brother's kids get the fever and they take them to the coffeehouse and Eliza says that once the first frost comes the plague will be gone. When the first frost finally comes they take the kids outside to heal and within a few hours they are cured. Everybody comes back into town. …show more content…
When a plague outbreaks,it threatens to wipe out the whole entire population of Pittsburgh,Pennsylvania a young girl is thrown into the mix of things. The yellow fever stole her mom and took her grandfather's life. Mattie herself is attacked by the plague but pulled through. She is left on her own and has to try to survive the fever. Mattie searches for food and water,finding a girl in a corner trying to wake her mom,but the mom passed away later that night. Mattie takes the girl and returns home where greater struggle will