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Dancing hands : how Teresa Carreño played the piano for President Lincoln  Cover Image Book Book

Dancing hands : how Teresa Carreño played the piano for President Lincoln / Margarita Engle ; Rafael López.

Engle, Margarita, (author.). López, Rafael, 1961- (illustrator.).

Summary:

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

Content descriptions

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.
System Details Note:
Requires OverDrive Read (file size: N/A KB) or Kobo app or compatible Kobo device (file size: N/A KB) or Amazon Kindle (file size: N/A KB).
Subject: Carreño, Teresa, 1853-1917 > Juvenile nonfiction.
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 > Juvenile nonfiction.
Pianists > United States > Biography > Juvenile nonfiction.
Gifted children > Biography > Juvenile nonfiction.
Child musicians > Biography > Juvenile nonfiction.
Venezuelan Americans > Biography > Juvenile nonfiction.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Juvenile nonfiction.
Genre: Biographies > Juvenile.
Picture books.
Electronic books.

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at Bangor.

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  • 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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Bangor Public Library ENF 92 CAR (Text) 75011000317302 Easy Nonfiction Available -


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