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The minstrel's melody /

In 1904, twelve-year-old Orphelia follows her dream by running away from home to join an all-black minstrel show headed for the Saint Louis World's Fair, and learns about her family's troubled past in the process.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Tate, Eleanora E.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Middleton, WI : Pleasant Company Publications, 2001.
Series:	History mysteries ; 11.
Subjects:	Musicians > Fiction. Runaways > Fiction. African Americans > Fiction. Louisiana Purchase Exposition > (1904 : > Saint Louis, Mo.) Minstrel shows > Fiction. Missouri > Race relations > Fiction.

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