Joshua's Song

Boston, 1919. Its been a terrible year for thirteen-year-old Joshua Harper. The influenza pandemic thats sweeping the world has claimed his fathers life; his voice has changed, so he cant sing in the Boston Boys Choir anymore; and now money is tight, so he must quit school to get a job. Its not fair! Joshua begins working as a newspaper boy, hawking papers on the street, but he soon finds himself competing with Charlestown Charlie, a tough, streetwise boy who does not make things easier for Joshua. It seems that fitting in is not as easy as it once was. Then disaster strikes the city of Boston. Joshua must do what he can to help, and in doing so he finds the placeand the voicethat he thought hed lost. This remarkable novel is fast-paced, suspenseful, and based on true incidents in Boston history.