Violin of hope
Call Number
- JE SCHW (CEN, OSH, WSQ)
Publication Information
Minneapolis, MN : Kar-Ben Publishing, 2024.
Physical Description
32 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Audience
Grades K-1. Kar-Ben Publishing.
Summary
A violin is taken from a Jewish family by the Nazis, but after years in a cellar, it finds its way back into a musician's hands, filling concert halls with the music of hope once again.
"Papa plays beautiful music on the violin, sometimes quick and lively and sometimes slow and sorrowful. But one night, there is a pounding on the door and a Nazi soldier snatches the violin away. The violin is silent for years until a luthier finds it and says, "I can fix you." Then a man comes to the shop and buys the violin for his son. In the boy's hands, the violin feels familiar, like a melody remembered from long ago."--Book jacket.
Notes
Includes author's note (page 32).
Subjects
- Violin > Juvenile fiction.
- Jewish families > Juvenile fiction.
- Jewish musicians > Juvenile fiction.
- Stringed instrument makers > Juvenile fiction.
- Violinists > Juvenile fiction.
- Jews > Europe > Juvenile fiction.
- World War, 1939-1945 > Juvenile fiction.
- Violin > Fiction.
- Jews > Europe > Fiction.
- World War, 1939-1945 > Fiction.