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西元1793年的費城，發生了嚴重的傳染病──黃熱病，主角瑪蒂達在母親也感染黃熱病之後，不得不和祖父離開他們在費城大街上所開的咖啡屋，往外地逃去。
一路上歷經缺糧、生病，又和母親失去聯絡，好不容易回到咖啡屋後，家中竟又遭宵小闖入洗劫一空，年邁體弱的組父在奮力抵擋竊賊後不幸去世，留下了孤苦無依的瑪蒂達……
這是一本以真實歷史事件為背景的小說，敘述著主角瑪蒂達如何應著當時環境的需要，從一個懶散的孩子蛻變成一個有責任感、有擔當的大人，並逐步達成自己的夢想，讓人感受到書中所散發出的意志力與愛。
August 1793. Fourteen-year-old Mattie Cook is ambitious, adventurous, and sick to death of listening to her mother. Mattie has plans of her own. She wants to turn the Cook Coffeehouse into the finest business in Philadelphia, the capital of the new United States.
But the waterfront is abuzz with reports of disease. "Fever" spreads from the docks and creeps toward Mattie's home, threatening everything she holds dear.
As the cemeteries fill with fever victims, fear turns to panic, and thousands flee the city. Then tragedy strikes the coffeehouse, and Mattie is trapped in a living nightmare. Suddenly, her struggle to build a better life must give way to something even more important -- the fight to stay alive.
★本書中譯版《陪我走過1793》由小魯文化出版。
作者簡介
羅莉．華爾茲．安德森 Laurie Halse Anderson
生長於美國紐約州的錫拉丘茲。羅莉在小學二年級時，老師教她寫「俳句」，她從此愛上文字。羅莉最喜歡的書是字典，她坦承她的拼字很糟。求學時代，她曾發下宏願要把圖書館的每一本書都讀完，圖書館在她眼中是天堂，圖書管理員更是她最心儀的工作。羅莉的寫作範圍很廣，遍及各個年齡階層。她為幼兒寫圖畫書，也為中年級的小學生和青少年寫小說，同時為學生與教師開辦寫作班。作品《我不再沉默》曾獲「普立茲文學獎」銀牌獎。
Laurie Halse Anderson is the New York Times-bestselling author who writes for kids of all ages. Known for tackling tough subjects with humor and sensitivity, her work has earned numerous ALA and state awards. Two of her books, Speak and Chains, were National Book Award finalists. Chains also received the 2009 Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction, and Laurie was chosen for the 2009 Margaret A. Edwards Award. Mother of four and wife of one, Laurie lives in Northern New York, where she likes to watch the snow fall as she writes. You can follow her adventures on Twitter, twitter.com/halseanderson, or her website MadwomanInTheForest.com
