256 pages, Historical Fiction, ISBN 978-1440598760.
This story is a fictional story is a fictional story based on the 1900’s. It talks of the life of a young girl named Teresa who longs for nothing but to be on stage sharing with the world her beautiful voice. She is a white girl full of so much talent who was told by her Father to in stead use her perfect pitch to work at the tuning factory for organs instead. Determined to live out her dream, she runs off to New York City and joined vaudeville troupes along side Pietro, an African American tap dancer and his father. There as she travels with this troupe, she was able to see the segregation, racial inequalities, and so much more happening during this time, especially when it come to performing with her friend, Pietro.
I would definitely recommend this book to be used in social studies because it shows real problems and struggles that were happening during the 1990’s even though it is a Fictional book. It shows the problem with segregation, inequality, indignities and prejudices, and a lot more issues including being forced to perform in blackface. This book also gives insights to what the places they went through (Colorado, NYC etc) would be like during this time and it was very descriptive of how things looked. This book does a great job in helping the reader feel what the characters of this book feel, or what people during this time period may have felt dealing with issues like the ones Teresa and her friends dealt with in this book.
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