Tunes for a Small Harmonica

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]

Tunes for a Small Harmonica
AuthorBarbara Wersba
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Genrenovel
PublisherHarper and Row
Publication date
October 1977
Media typePrint (hardback)
Pages173
ISBN0-06-026373-3
OCLC2224740
LC ClassPZ7.W473 Tu

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. She the attempts to raise $1000 to help her teacher return to England to finish his Master's thesis.

gollark: No.
gollark: Also, I MAY arbitrarily deploy a chatbot of some kind in the future.
gollark: Fascinating.
gollark: Just parse all law and feed it to Z3.
gollark: Observe.

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