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Gr 6-9 Sixteen-year-old musician Mark Purvis longs to break into the jazz scene of 1925 Harlem, but when he becomes embroiled in a bootlegging scheme with real-life jazzman Fats Waller, he has to find a way to pay off an angry mob boss for losing the liquor. Mark has a job at "The Crisis", a magazine headed up by W. E. B. DuBois and published by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. As expected, his lovabl...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Myers's portrait of the Harlem Renaissance is just that bit more rambunctious—and entertainingly irreverent—than Eleanora Tate's Celeste's Harlem Renaissance, reviewed below. In 1925, teenager Mark is hoping to blow his sax with the young sensation Fats Waller; meanwhile, he needs to earn money for his family and gets a job at The Crisis, flagship magazine for Harlem's literary coterie and promoter of W. E. B. DuBo...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

In 1925, teenager Mark is hoping to blow his sax with Fats Waller. He needs to earn money and gets a job at <i>The C...Log In or Sign Up to Read More