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White,
E. B.
THE
TRUMPET OF THE SWAN
New
York : Harper & Row, 1973.
IL 3-6
RL 5.8
ISBN
0060263970
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This
book is about an ambitious trumpeter swan, born without a voice, who has
fallen for Serena. His father has stolen a real trumpet to help his handicapped
son. Louis's mission becomes that of paying his father's debt to the music
store in Billings , Montana. Adventure leads him to bugler at Camp Coucouscous,
swan boat trumpeter in Boston and Philadelphia night club act. You'll love
the humorous scenes where father swan rants on and on with flowery speech
and mother swan's down to earth rebuttals. |
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SUBJECTS:
Trumpeter swan -- Fiction
Fantasy
Swans -- Fiction |
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