Tunes for a Small Harmonica
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| Author | Barbara Wersba |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre | novel |
| Publisher | Harper and Row |
Publication date | October 1977 |
| Media type | Print (hardback) |
| Pages | 173 |
| ISBN | 0-06-026373-3 |
| OCLC | 2224740 |
| LC Class | PZ7.W473 Tu |
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.[1] The novel has been translated into Catalan, Dutch, German, Japanese, Korean, and Spanish.[2]
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.
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