C?cile Rey, spending the summer volunteering with her friend Marie-Grace Gardner at a nearby orphanage, forms a special bond with a young girl named Perrine and decides to try and raise money for the children by helping in a huge benefit.
year: 2011
call number/section: 1000
subjects: fund raising, juvenile fiction, orphans, yellow fever, friendship, free african americans, new orleans (la.), history, 19th century, juvenile fiction, fiction