Tunes for a Small Harmonica is a novel by Barbara Wersba about an adolescent tomboy named J.F.

It was a finalist for the 1977 National Book Award for Young People's Literature.

[1] The novel has been translated into Catalan, Dutch, German, Japanese, Korean, and Spanish.

receives a harmonica from friend for her birthday and ends up learning to play it.

She then attempts to raise $1000 to help her teacher return to England to finish his Master's thesis.