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Jan 1, 1948 — —· 78 yrs

AFRICAN AMERICANS · FICTION

Eleanora E. Tate

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American author and educator

Orphelia Bruce raised her hands to an imaginary piano keyboard and wiggled her slender fingers in the warm Missouri spring air.

— from The Minstrel's Melody

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#2

Front Porch Stories

1994

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Twelve-year-old Margie and her younger cousin forget their boredom when Margie's father entertains them with stories about people and events in their small Missouri town's past.

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The Minstrel's Melody

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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.

#3

A blessing in disguise

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Twelve-year-old Zambia thinks that life with her aunt and uncle in Deacons Neck, South Carolina, is boring and dreams of going to live with her smooth-talking, fast-living father, until she gets to know the darker side of his world.

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