8.4 /10 1 Votes
Country United States Publication date October 1977 Pages 173 Originally published October 1977 Page count 173 Publisher Harper | 4.2/5 Goodreads Language English Media type Print (hardback) ISBN 0-06-026373-3 Genre Novel | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nominations National Book Award for Children's Books Similar Fat - a love story, Walter: The Story of a Rat, Wonderful Me, Run softly - go fast | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Tunes for a Small Harmonica is a novel by Barbara Wersba about an adolescent tomboy named J.F. McAllister. It was originally published by Dell Publishing but was then reprinted by Harper and Row publishing. It was a finalist for the 1977 National Book Award for Young People's Literature. The novel has been translated into Catalan, Dutch, German, Japanese, Korean, and Spanish.
Plot
J.F. receives a harmonica from friend for her birthday and ends up learning to play it. She becomes quite good and this skill becomes useful after she ends up falling in love with her poetry teacher and then decides to try to raise $1000 to help her teacher to be able to return to England to finish his Master's thesis.
References
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