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      The Ragtime Kid

      by Larry Karp
      Published
      Dec 2006
      Main Genre
      Historical Mystery Hist. Mystery
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      320
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      A Ragtime Mystery Book 1

      About This Book

      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...

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      Historical Mystery

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