Dancing hands : how Teresa Carreño played the piano for President Lincoln / Margarita Engle ; Rafael López.
In soaring words and stunning illustrations, Margarita Engle and Rafael López tell the story of Teresa Carreño, a child prodigy who played piano for Abraham Lincoln. As a little girl, Teresa Carreño loved to let her hands dance across the beautiful keys of the piano. If she felt sad, music cheered her up, 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 forced 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 -- the 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?
Record details
- ISBN: 9781481487412
- Physical Description: 1 online resource
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Target Audience Note: | Text Difficulty 4 LG/Lower grades (K-3rd) 1260 Lexile. 5.5 ATOS Level |
Reproduction Note: | Electronic reproduction. New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2019. |
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Genre: | Biographies > Juvenile. Picture books. Electronic books. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Lehigh Carbon Library Cooperative. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Palmerton Area Library.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Palmerton Area Library | J 786.2092 En3 (Text) | 65000000010308 | Juvenile Nonfiction | Available | - |