Feverish

An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 by Jim Murphy.

Two hundred years ago, Philadelphia was the capital of the United States. What happens when a plague strikes the capital city of a country barely 20 years old? What are the chances of surviving the plague when the main treatments used by doctors are bleeding and purging and bad smells are believed to cause illness? Who runs the city, and who provides medical services? And could it happen again?

Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson

Mattie Cook lives above the coffee shop run by her mother when the plague strikes Philadelphia, and her mother is taken ill. Mattie must learn to survive in a city turned upside down and isolated by the disease. There is no money, no food, no medicine and nowhere to go….