Marie-Grace has just arrived in New Orleans and she begins to make friends and enjoys singing but she is shy.

Cecile is anxious for Mardi Gras and a new costume and she also makes a new friend named Marie-Grace Gardner.

An affluent black family fights against illness and death when a terrible outbreak of yellow fever strikes New Orleans in the summer of 1853.

When Marie-Grace learns that the orphan dropped at her father's doorstep may be in terrible danger, she and her friend Cécile devise a plan to protect the chil

Eleven-year-old Cécile Rey searches through many corners of 1854 New Orleans seeking a necklace, borrowed from her Tante Tay, that disappeared as she was exiti