Matilda Mattie Cook is a fourteen-year-old girl living above a coffeehouse in Philadelphia with her mother, grandfather and a ,parrot named King George, and an orange cat named Silas. Eliza, is a free black woman, is the coffeehouse cook. A typical teenager, Mattie is always in the middle of daydreams, beginning to notice boys and getting into all kinds of arguments with her single mother, Lucille.
One day, the coffeehouse's girl that serves Polly, doesn't show up for work. Turns out she came down with a case of the fever, and the next thing you know, she's being buried. She didn't come back.
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