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Troubles for Cecile

by Denise Lewis Patrick

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

Yellow feverFrench AmericansJuvenile fictionHistoryAfrican AmericansFictionEpidemicsFriendshipOrphansHistorical fictionFree African AmericansChildren's fiction