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Tunes for a Small Harmonica

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Tunes for a Small Harmonica
First edition
AuthorBarbara Wersba
LanguageEnglish
Genrenovel
PublisherHarper and Row
Publication date
1976
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (hardback)
Pages173
ISBN0-06-026373-3
OCLC2224740
LC ClassPZ7.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

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

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