Laurie Halse Anderson's historical fiction book, Fever 1793, takes place in Philadelphia in the year 1793. The Epidemic Yellow Fever is spread all over the city and people are dying left and right. Mattie has to survive the epidemic with her mother sick and he Grandfather dead. Mattie never gives up though she perseveres through it all. Since Mattie never gives up, and good things happen to her after the bad times end. For example, when Mattie and Grandfather are forced by Mother to leave town they get thrown off the cart and are forced to go back to the coffeehouse. They don’t make it back before grandfather grows ill. He is weak and burning up, but he is always cold. Mattie never leaves Grandfather alone, and goes home by herself. She