01174cam a2200313 4500 68912366 TxAuBib 20070117120000.0 ||||||s1989||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 87-037221 DLC TxAuBib Schroeder, Alan. Ragtime Tumpie / written by Alan Schroeder ; paintings by Bernie Fuchs. 1st paperback ed. Boston : Little, Brown, 1989. 1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. 4.2. Tumpie, a young black girl who will later become famous as the dancer Josephine Baker, longs to find the opportunity to dance amid the poverty and vivacious street life of St. Louis in the early 1900s. Accelerated Reader LG 4.2 0.5 6340. 20070117. African Americans Fiction. Baker, Josephine, 1906-1975 Fiction. Baker, Josephine, 1906-1975 Juvenile fiction. Dance Fiction. Dancing Fiction. Saint Louis (Mo) Fiction. 28 cm. Fuchs, Bernie.