From: "PUBYAC: PUBlic librarians serving Young Adults & Children" <pubyac@prairienet.org>

To: "PUBYAC: PUBlic librarians serving Young Adults & Children" <pubyac@prairienet.org>

Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 00:01:09 CDT

Subject: PUBYAC digest 167

PUBYAC Digest 167

Topics covered in this issue include:

1) STUMPER -- lad, geezer, violin

by John Peters <cf071@freenet.buffalo.edu>

----------------------------------------------------------------------

From: John Peters <cf071@freenet.buffalo.edu>

To: pubyac@prairienet.org

Subject: STUMPER -- lad, geezer, violin

MIME-Version: 1.0

Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII

Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 16:35:50 CDT

Greetings to all: What our patron chiefly remembers about the book he's

trying to track down is that he got in trouble for sneaking it out of his

third grade class (mid 1950's) to finish it. Still, he thinks the main

young character's name was "Alo" or something like, and there was an old

man with a violin, and either or both of the people were Romany (Gypsy,

then, of course). He is less sure that the book was published by Heath,

and thinks that it might have been part of a series.

We have checked WHO'S WHO IN CHILDREN'S BOOKS, CHARACTERS IN CHILDREN'S

LITERATURE and the various handbooks to children's lit, as well as doing

some key word searches of NYPL's catalog, but nothing recognizable came

up. Not much to go on, I know.

Ring any bells? Please respond to the address below.

John Peters

Central Children's Room

The New York Public Library

cf071@freenet.buffalo.edu

**My esteemed institution asserts its right

to hold different views**

------------------------------

End of PUBYAC Digest 167

************************