Dancing hands : how Teresa Carreno played the piano for President Lincoln / Margarita Engle ; illustrated by Rafael Lopez.

By:

Engle, Margarita [author.]

Contributor(s):

López, Rafael, 1961- [illustrator.]

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Publisher: New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, [2019]Description: 41 pages col illContent type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9781481487412 (eBook)

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

786.2092 B 23 F

LOC classification:

ML3930.C2635

Summary: As a little girl, Teresa Carreno loved to let her hands dance across the beautiful keys of the piano. If she felt sad, music cheered her, and when she was happy, the piano helped her share that joy. Soon she was writing her own songs and performing in grand cathedrals. Then a revolution in Venezuela drove her family to flee to the United States. Teresa felt lonely in this unfamiliar place, where few of the people she met spoke Spanish. Worst of all, there was fighting in her new home, too - a Civil War. Still, Teresa kept playing, and soon she grew famous as the talented Piano Girl who could play anything from a folk song to a sonata. So famous, in fact, that President Abraham Lincoln wanted her to play at the White House! Yet with the country torn apart by war, could Teresa’s music bring comfort to those who needed it most?

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Printed book	IES Ostersund Picture Books	Fiction	F Eng (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		800660415554C

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As a little girl, Teresa Carreno loved to let her hands dance across the beautiful keys of the piano. If she felt sad, music cheered her, and when she was happy, the piano helped her share that joy. Soon she was writing her own songs and performing in grand cathedrals.

Then a revolution in Venezuela drove her family to flee to the United States. Teresa felt lonely in this unfamiliar place, where few of the people she met spoke Spanish. Worst of all, there was fighting in her new home, too - a Civil War.

Still, Teresa kept playing, and soon she grew famous as the talented Piano Girl who could play anything from a folk song to a sonata. So famous, in fact, that President Abraham Lincoln wanted her to play at the White House! Yet with the country torn apart by war, could Teresa’s music bring comfort to those who needed it most?

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