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Hey, Charleston!

by Anne Rockwell

Illustrator: Colin Bootman

Ages: 9+

Published: 2013

Publisher: Carolrhoda/Lerner

ISBN: 978-0-7613-5565-6

Keywords: Music, Jazz, African Americans

When a preacher, a former slave, unites orphans and old musical instruments, a whole new style of music, called Rag, is created. Illustrations in oil on watercolor paper.