Elizabeth's song

By Michael Wenberg

Subjects: Singers, Folk music, Biography, African Americans, African americans, fiction, Folk singers, Childhood and youth, Music, fiction, Fiction, Children's fiction, Juvenile fiction

Description: A fictionalized account of how an eleven-year-old girl, Elizabeth "Libba" Cotten, saved to buy her first guitar and composed the popular folksong, "Freight Train." Includes a brief summary of her life's work and awards.