Fever 1973

The book I read a long time ago was called Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson. It's historical fiction and is based on a real epidemic in 1793 of yellow fever. Mattie (who is the main character)'s mom and grandpa own a coffeehouse. They have a maid called Eliza that's not really like a maid because she's Mattie's best friend.
Mattie is 14 years old. One day, she finds out that Polly (who was her friend) died of a fever. Soon 100 people died. Her mother gets the fever and convinces Mattie and her grandpa to evacuate. Suddenly her grandpa gets yellow fever too. Mattie herself gets sick but survives so she is immune to the yellow fever
Now, more than a thousand people have died. Mattie returns to her house. She finds out that lots of things in her house were stolen. This day when she's sleeping, these thieves come and steal her stuff and kill her grandpa. And she still doesn't know where her mother is. . .
Mattie goes to Eliza' house and cares for sick children that almost die. When the frost comes, the fever is gone and they are happy again.

Mattie said that Eliza was "black but she was free and Philadelphia was the best place for free slaves". Mattie, unlike some people, treated Eliza like everyone else and like she was family. She never mentioned that Eliza was black more than once. If you skipped the first part of the book, you would never know that Eliza was black. I think Eliza treats all people equally no matter how they're like.

I think Laurie Halse Anderson wrote this book because she wanted to put a picture into your mind about the yellow fever in 1793 and how it was like. You could imagine streets full of dead people, people bleeding, and the air smelling like something rotten and how hard it was for the people there. Mattie took everything easily, sort of, and it was hard for her to believe (in the beginning) that there was an epidemic until lots of people had died.

I think the author feels that Mattie was really brave and inquisitive and intended for her to be that way. I think she feels that way because she wanted her audience to feel what she felt, and to think that it was a really horrible time to be in.

The author began with Mattie slapping at a mosquito. That makes sense because the yellow fever was spread by mosquitoes.

If I was Mattie, I would be be really scared; family members died, mom missing, etc. Mattie was really brave to overcome all that.

Witch and Wizard

Dear class:

This book im reading right now over track out is like harry potter, but except it tells a different story. This book that im reading is called Witch and wizard. This book is about a boy named Whit (weird name i know) and a girl named Wisty. Wisty is a young witch and Whit is a wizard but they dont know that! So in the book there taken away by army people because there witches and wizards. There in the jury and a guard of securety says that Whit is a wizard and that Wisty is a witch. As they were heading to prison Whits body burst in to flames! The army people were about to shoot Whit and refused to not use his powers and thats what Wisty said also and that they could get killed!

In my opinion i think that this book is the best book ever!

Sincerely,

Rocker

ZooBreak!

Dear class,

I am reading Zoobreak still as you all know. So far in the book, Savannah found her monkey cleo and is not done yet at the zoo on the boat All abord animals. She wants to rescue not just cleo, but ALL the animals on the boat! Her friends Griffin, Ben, Logan, Pitch had to make a decision and they had to say yes because of what the zoo keeper Mr.Nastase tourtured the animals. One of the animals that Mr.Nastase has is an owl that is trained to attack people who sneak on the boat. The questions I have is will Savannah and her friends beable to sneak cleo and all the animals out of the boat, or will she be caught with the rest of the animals? I think this book is very good and descriptive with some weird and funny sences in it.

Sincerely,

Rocker