Meet Cecile : an American girl / by Denise Lewis Patrick ; illustrations, Christine Kornacki ; vignettes, Cindy Salans Rosenheim.
Material type:
TextSeries: American girls collectionPublication details: Midddleton, WI : American Girl Pub., 2011.Description: 109 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 23 cmISBN: - 1593696604 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 1593696612 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 9781593696603 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 9781593696610 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- African Americans -- Juvenile fiction
- Balls (Parties) -- Juvenile fiction
- Free African Americans -- Juvenile fiction
- French Americans -- Juvenile fiction
- Friendship -- Juvenile fiction
- Race relations -- Juvenile fiction
- Mardi Gras -- Fiction
- New Orleans (La.) -- History -- 19th century -- Juvenile fiction
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Shelving location | Call number | Materials specified | Vol info | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Children's Book
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Dr. James Carlson Library | Children's Fiction | Fiction Favorites | American Patrick | American Girl; C/M 2 | Available | 33111006560334 | ||||
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Children's Book
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Main Library | Children's Fiction | Fiction Favorites | American Patrick | American Girl | Checked out | 05/28/2024 | 33111006818500 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Cécile Rey can't wait for Mardi Gras - the dazzling season of parties and costume balls in New Orleans. For the grandest event of all, the Children's Ball, Cécile is determined to come up with a fantastic costume like no other. Everyone will notice her! And after Mardi Gras, Cécile's beloved brother, Armand, will finally come home after two long years in faraway France. But Mardi Gras season turns out to be even more exciting than Cécile expects when she meets a new girl named Marie-Grace Gardner. Together they form an unlikely friendship - and share a daring adventure! Includes an illustrated "Looking Back" essay about the history of free people of color in New Orleans. The story continues in the third book in the series, Marie-Grace and the Orphans.
At head of title: 1853.
Cécile Rey, whose prosperous family are free people of color, makes friends with Marie-Grace Gardner, a doctor's daughter who has just returned to her native New Orleans in 1853, and persuades her to change places at their separate Mardi Gras balls.
Ages 8 and up.