Banjo of Destiny

By: Cary Fagan

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Synopsis: Nominee for the 2012 Silver Birch Express Award in the Ontario Library Association's Forest of Reading Program. Jeremiah Birnbaum is stinking rich. He lives in a house with nine bathrooms, a games room, an exercise room, an indoor pool, a hot tub, a movie theater, a bowling alley and a tennis court. His parents, a former hotdog vendor and window cleaner who made it big in dental floss, make sure Jeremiah goes to the very best private school, and that he takes lessons in all the things he will need to know how to do as an accomplished and impressive young man: etiquette lessons, ballroom dancing, watercolor painting. And, of course, classical piano. Jeremiah complies, because he wants to please his parents. But one day, by chance, he hears the captivating strains of a different kind of music -- the strums, plucks and rhythms of a banjo. It is music that stirs something in Jeremiah's dutiful little soul, and he is suddenly obsessed. And when his parents forbid him to play one, he decides to learn anyway -- even if he has to make the instrument himself.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
Book Size:: 128 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9781554981410
Related ISBNs:: 9781554980864, 9781554985692, 9781554980857
Publisher:: Groundwood Books Ltd
Date of Addition:: 06/22/21
Copyrighted By:: Cary Fagan
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Children's Books, Entertainment, Literature and Fiction, Parenting and Family, Music
Grade Levels:: Fourth grade
Reading Age:: 9–9
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.