Fever-Xander-Summary

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By: Xander

Matilda is a girl who lives with her mother above a coffee house. Matilda’s mom owns the coffee house. One day, the serving girl didn’t come to work. Matilda later learns that she came down with yellow fever. After this, Matilda learns of more and more yellow fever cases popping out of nowhere. Now Matilda meets a boy named Nathaniel Benson. The next person to fall ill is Matilda’s own mother. Doctors keep coming to visit her to try and find a cure. Later they start to drain some of her blood. She later tells Matilda and grandfather to go to the city where it is safe. Matilda goes with her grandfather to please her mom but on the way they were mistaken for fever patients. Trying to take care of her grandfather, she comes down with the yellow fever. She then wakes up to find herself in a bed at Bush Hill, which is a hospital. They didn’t drain any blood. They thought that sleeping was a better way than draining blood. Later Matilda and her grandfather go back to the city to sadly find the coffee house raided by thieves and looters. Matilda tries to find food for herself and her grandfather in the small garden. Soon grandfather dies. After Matilda saw him properly buried, she walks around the city of Philadelphia and finds an orphan who goes by the name Nell. After walking around with Nell, Matilda sees a familiar face. She saw the old coffee house’s chef, Eliza. Eliza takes Matilda and Nell to her brother Joseph's house, where Matilda meets Joseph, his twin boys, and Mother Smith, who isn’t all that nice but likes to take care of the boys because they lost their mom. Unfortunately, Nell and the twins come down with yellow fever. They took the children to the coffee house and nursed them. Then the frost came and their fevers broke. Nathaniel Benson and Matilda reunite and people from the country start to come back to the city. Matilda re-opens the coffee house and makes Eliza her business partner. Nate (Nathaniel) starts to come around more and Matilda hangs up some of his paintings. Soon Matilda and her mom are reunited and she isn’t as strong as she used to be. Matilda starts to build a new life and she lived happy.