Polly doesn't show up for work in the book "Fever 1793" because she falls ill with yellow fever, the disease that quickly spreads through Philadelphia and impacts many characters in the story.
Typhoid fever
When the theives broke in.
Nope
No, the mother doesn't die... but the grandfather does.
Polly died from sewing over candlelight. So the suspected cause of her death was probably fever, because she was in exhaution from the candlelight.
he died by falling off a ladder.
Yes, Mattie's mother dies from yellow fever in the book "Fever 1793" by Laurie Halse Anderson.
"Fever 1793" by Laurie Halse Anderson has 29 chapters in total.
Fever 1793 was published by Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers.
Well, Fever was actually real and people really did die from this event. AND NO CHEATING ON YOUR SUMMER READING PROJECT!
She doesnt