# The Ragtime Kid

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- Authors: [Larry Karp](https://www.bookquiver.com/larry-karp)
- Language: en_US
- Published: 2008-09-11

## Description

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...

## Editions

### The Ragtime Kid

- Publisher: sourcebooks
- ISBN: 978-15-9058-528-3
- Pages: 320
- Published: 2008-09-11
- Language: en_US