| A | B |
|---|
| King George | Grandfather's parrot |
| Polly | serving girl at the Cook Coffeehouse |
| Mattie's father | a carpenter by trade |
| Silas | Mattie's cat |
| William Farnsworth Cook | Grandfather |
| Nathaniel Benson | painter's assistant |
| Flagg | cares for Mattie at Bush Hill |
| Lucille | Mattie's mother |
| Eliza | born a slave |
| Mattie | age 14; has big dreams for the future |
| Nell | cared for by Mattie |
| Joseph | a cooper; Eliza's brother |
| Robert and William | Joseph's children |
| Mother Smith | elderly woman who cares for Joseph and his children |
| Stephen Girard | supervised the transformation of Bush Hill into a hospital |
| Bush Hill | site of a hospital for yellow fever victims |
| Country | Wealthy peaople flee there to escape the fever |
| France | Country Matilda would like to visit |
| Father | Fell off a ladder and died of a broken neck. |
| Frost | It kills mosquitos and yellow fever. |
| Portrait | Item Matilda burys with her grandfather. |
| Flowers | Nathaniel throws these out the window to Eliza and Matilda. |
| Ludington | Family whoses farm Matilda's mother would like to send her to. |
| Philadelphia | Setting where the novel begins |
| Robbed | Matilda and grandfather return to find the coffeehouse has been _____ |
| Orphanage | Place the people at Bush Hill think Matilda should go |
| Coffeehouse | Business owned by the Cook family |
| Foreigners | Matilda's grandfather blames them for the fever |
| Bleeding | What some doctors foolishly think will cure the fever |
| Painting | Gift Matilda receives from Nathaniel |
| love you | Matilda's grandfather's last words |
| Grandfather has the fever | Matilda and Grandfather can't continue to the country because |
| Bush Hill | A mansion turned to hospital for fever victims |
| stabbed | Matilda _____ the robbers to help her grandfather. |
| Free African Society | Group that helped care for fever victims |
