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Title: Play to the Angel by Maurine F. Dahlberg ISBN: 0-14-230145-0 Publisher: Puffin Pub. Date: August, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.75 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: wonderful book
Comment: When her brother dies, Greta Radky is left lonely; her mother doesn't love her as much as her deseased brother, her best friend moved away, and her father pulled a disappearing act when she was younger. The one way she finds joy is through the piano, which her mother wants to sell. When a piano teacher moves in across the street, she convinces her mother to let her take lessons and keep the piano. But her teacher, Herr Hummel is on the run from the Nazis. After her first recital, she finds that Hitler has taken over Austria, and is worried for her teacher.
This book was incredible with a good insight on the war. I liked the plot very much.
Rating: 4
Summary: Resolute Pursuit of a Dream
Comment: A great story well told -- what more could a reader want? _Play to the Angel_, which takes place in Vienna in 1938, is narrated by twelve-year-old Greta Radky. Greta's older brother had been a promising concert pianist, but now that he has died, her mother is threatening to sell their piano.
Early in the novel Greta tells why the piano is so important to her: "I [played the piano] because it satisfied something inside me, the way a bowl of hot soup satisfied my stomach or a breath of fresh air satisfied my lungs. But the something it satisfied was deeper than my stomach or my lungs. It was the part of me that made me *me*."
Without preaching, _Play to the Angel_ provides a powerful example of a resolute heroine pursuing a dream in the face of obstacles -- in the closing chapters, the Nazi occupation. Greta receives lessons that are valuable to any performer: On nervousness: ". . . you must give the music in you a chance to chase away the fear instead of letting the fear chase away the music." Similarly, Greta is taught about two kinds of musicians -- one, which uses music to present his skill to the world, and the other, which uses his skill to present the music.
Maurine Dahlberg's first novel, _Play to the Angel_ has been nominated for the Mark Twain Award for 2002-2003.
Rating: 5
Summary: I loved this book
Comment: I loved this book. I liked it because the history did not have anything to do with the book intil the end. It is about a girl named Greta who is living in Austria at the time of the rise of Nazi Germany. She loves to play piano, but her mother does not want her to play because it reminds her of Greta's deceased brother who was very good at piano. Greta is a very shy girl and not very brave, but that made her a good character to read about.
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Title: Notes from a Liar and Her Dog by Gennifer Choldenko ISBN: 0142500682 Publisher: Puffin Pub. Date: June, 2003 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Sweetgrass by Jan Hudson ISBN: 0698117638 Publisher: Puffin Pub. Date: March, 1999 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Petey Paperback by Ben Mikaelsen ISBN: 0786813369 Publisher: Hyperion Press Pub. Date: 03 April, 2000 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Invitation to the Game by Monica Hughes ISBN: 0671866923 Publisher: Simon Pulse Pub. Date: 01 June, 1993 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
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Title: The Kite Rider by Geraldine McCaughrean ISBN: 0064410919 Publisher: HarperTrophy Pub. Date: 23 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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