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Kaplan, Howard ; ill. by Herve Blondon
WAITING TO SING
New York : Dorling Kindersley, 2000.
IL K-3  RL 3.8
ISBN 0789426153
Do you have something that makes you really happy?  The young man in this story does.  He loves the piano.  He loves listening to it and he loves playing it.  When there is piano music in the air, the world seems right.  When his mother becomes ill, he spends his time playing for her.  He feels he is sending his love for her down the hallway with his music.  When she dies, the music stops.  He can no longer feel the power of the piano.  Will he be able to overcome his grief and play the piano?  To find out, read WAITING TO SING by Howard Kaplan.
SUBJECTS:     Piano -- Fiction.
                        Music -- Fiction.
                        Death -- Fiction.
                        Mother and child -- Fiction.

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