Elly Robin on the Road
THE ORDEALS OF ELLY ROBIN
Volume 3
While rambling through Kansas in the year 1912 in her Model T Roadster, Elly Robin and her pal Jimmy McGann, along with Jimmy's young wife Sara and her little brother Jonah, fall in with a troupe of down-at-heel actors.
Thirteen-year-old Elly's sensational ragtime playing revives the troupe's fortunes, and both Sara and Jonah discover talents that help keep the troupe afloat. But a brutal murder and a flash flood lead to Elly's dependence on a remote community of ex-slaves and their descendents for her survival. And to the blooming of a forbidden kind of love...
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“A spirited teen's 1910's misadventures in love, danger, and ragtime. Quaver carefully blends nostalgia with clear-eyed realism, not shying away from the past's darkness. The story, targeted to adults but with a YA feel, is still buoyant, alive with audacious, idiosyncratic characters. Readers will enjoy the camaraderie, humor, and the author’s era-appropriate illustrations.”
—Booklife