Once Upon a Fever
About this book
Since the world fell sick with fantastical illnesses, sisters Payton and Ani have grown up in King Jude’s Hospital.
Payton wants to be a methic like her father, working on a cure for her mother’s sleeping fever. Ani, however, thinks the remedy for all illness might be found in the green wilderness beyond the hospital walls.
When Ani stumbles upon an imprisoned boy who turns everything he touches to gold, her world is turned upside-down. The girls find themselves outside the hospital for the first time, a dark mystery unraveling...
Reviews
Praise for The Ash House:
A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year
"The book has an allegorical chill that settles slowly, like damp seeping in... leaving readers with a feeling of ambiguous unease that may stir for a long time in the back of their minds like the aftereffects of a nightmare.” -- The Wall Street Journal
* “An impressive first novel that slowly unfolds its brilliant twists and deceptions.” -- The Bulletin of the Center For Children’s Books, starred review
“An intersection of Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children and Lord of the Flies.” -- Booklist
“An unexpected—and pleasing—combination of propitious and disquieting.”-- Kirkus Reviews
