A Song for Harlem: 1928

by Patricia C. McKissack and Gordon C. James

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 067006209X
• ISBN13: 9780670062096
• Release Date: August 2007
• Publisher: Viking Children's Books
• Length: 108 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 7.3"
• Age Range: 8 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 3 and higher