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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
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.
SUBJECTS:     Trumpeter swan -- Fiction
                        Fantasy
                        Swans -- Fiction

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