When the nightingale sings
By: Joyce Carol Thomas.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 1992
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 148
Subjects: Singing -- Fiction.; Self-esteem -- Fiction.; Orphans -- Fiction.; African Americans -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Despite her mean-spirited foster mother's attempts to demean her, fourteen-year-old orphan Marigold finds the song within her heart during the search for a new lead gospel singer for the Rose of Sharon Baptist Church.