The Minstrel's Melody
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.
FIC
year: 2009
copies: 17
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 740
subjects: musicians [X], runaways, african americans, minstrel shows, historical fiction, missouri [X], runaway children, music [X]