The Minstrel's Melody (American Girl: History Mysteries)

by Eleanora E. Tate

Hardcover, 2001

Tags

NCSS Standards Theme--Culture, NCSS Standards Theme--Time-Continuity-Change, NCSS Standards Theme--People-Places-Environments, NCSS Standards Theme--Individual Development and Identity, History, Life, History-Life-and Culture in the Americas, Reading Level-Intermediate (3-5), History Life, & Culture in the Americas

Genres

Collection

Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People

Publication

Amer Girl Pub (2001), 163 pages

Description

In 1904, twelve-year-old Orphelia follows her dream by running away from home to join an all-black minstrel show headed for the Saint Louis World's Fair, and learns about her family's troubled past in the process.

Subjects

African Americans Fiction
Minstrel shows Fiction
Missouri Race relations Fiction
Musicians Fiction
Runaways Fiction

Awards

NCSS/CBC Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People (2002)

Language

English

Original language

English

ISBN

1584853115 / 9781584853114

UPC

723232053117

DDC/MDS

818.5402

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