Song for Harlem

Harlem in its heydaythe 1920sis the backdrop for the next Scraps of Time story. For Lilly Belle, the capital of Black America is about as far from her hometown of Smyrna, Tennessee, as a twelve-year-old can getmaybe 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 the Dark Tower, and the author Zora Neale Hurston is her teacher, helping Lilly Belle come to a deeper understanding of the power of words, especially her own. Once again Patricia C. McKissack builds an involving story around real events and famous figures.McKissack, Patricia C. is the author of 'Song for Harlem ', published 2007 under ISBN 9780670062096 and ISBN 067006209X.