| The Ragtime Kid Contributor(s): Karp, Larry (Author) |
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ISBN: 1590585283 ISBN-13: 9781590585283 Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press OUR PRICE: $17.09 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2008 Annotation: Brun Campbell, a 15-year-old piano fool, gets to play Scott Joplin's "Maple Leaf Rag" one 1898 afternoon in Oklahoma City. It's destiny calling. Though he tries for ragtime lessons, he's told no--"Ragtime is colored music" So Brun runs away from the family home in El Reno, Oklahoma, to Sedalia, Missouri, to persuade Joplin to take him on as a pupil. What Brun doesn't expect is to trip over the body of a young woman--he thinks at first she's a log and thoughtlessly picks up a couple of items before he rushes away. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Mystery & Detective - Historical |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Series: Ragtime Mystery Trilogy |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.2" W x 8.1" (1.05 lbs) 320 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Brun Campbell, a 15-year-old piano fool, gets to play Scott Joplin's Maple Leaf Rag one 1898 afternoon in Oklahoma City. It's destiny calling. Though he tries for ragtime lessons, he's told no--Ragtime is colored music So Brun runs away from the family home in El Reno, Oklahoma, to Sedalia, Missouri, to persuade Joplin to take him on as a pupil. What Brun doesn't expect is to trip over the body of a young woman--he thinks at first she's a log and thoughtlessly picks up a couple of items before he rushes away. |