A song for Harlem / by Patricia C. McKissack ; illustrations by Gordon C. James.
Material type:
TextSeries: Scraps of timePublication details: New York : Viking, 2007.Description: 108 p. : ill. ; 19 cmISBN: - 067006209X (hc.)
- 9780670062096 (hc.)
- Hurston, Zora Neale -- Juvenile fiction
- Robinson, A'Lelia Walker, 1885-1931 -- Juvenile fiction
- African Americans -- Juvenile fiction
- Creative writing -- Juvenile fiction
- Friendship -- Juvenile fiction
- Harlem Renaissance -- Juvenile fiction
- Historical fiction
- Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile fiction
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Vol info | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Children's Book
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Main Library | Children's First Chapter Book | McKissac Pat | 3 | Available | 33111007027861 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Harlem in its heydayathe 1920sais the backdrop for the next Scraps of Time story. For Lilly Belle, athe capital of Black Americaa is about as far from her hometown of Smyrna, Tennessee, as a twelve-year-old can getamaybe not in miles but certainly in mind set. A summer program for gifted young writers opens a new world. Jazz music in the street lulls her to sleep, her classroom is in a mansion called athe Dark Tower, a and the author Zora Neale Hurston is her teacher, helping Lilly Belle come to a deeper understanding of the power of words, especially her own. Once again Patricia C. McKissack builds an involving story around real events and famous figures
In the summer of 1928, Lilly Belle Turner of Smyrna, Tennessee, participates in a young author's writing program, taught by Zora Neale Hurston and hosted by A'Lelia Walker in her Harlem teahouse at the height of the Harlem Renaissance.
Ages 8-up.