The Facts and Fictions of Minna Pratt
Kindle Edition
HarperCollins · Ebook · June 25, 2013
Minna wishes for many things.
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- Who it’s for
- A thoughtful story about wishing, listening, and finding your way toward music and yourself.
- Themes
- Self-understanding, Family communication, Music and practice
- Genres
- Music Stories, Girls & Young Women, Self-Esteem & Resilience
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Minna wishes for many things. She wishes she understood the quote taped above her mother's typewriter:Fact and fiction are different truths. She wishes her mother would stop writing long enough to really listen to her. She wishes her house were peaceful and orderly like her friend Lucas's. Most of all, she wishes she could find a vibrato on her cello and play Mozart the way he deserves to be played.
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Minna soon discovers that some things can't be found-they just have to happen. And as she waits for her vibrato to happen, Minna begins to understand some facts and fictions about herself.
Where Truth Hums
A thoughtful story about wishing, listening, and finding your way toward music and yourself.
Come here for
- A young cellist’s longing to play Mozart with feeling
- A gentle interplay of family wishes and questions about fact and fiction
Expect
- A reflective, intimate reading experience
- Music woven into a story of self-understanding
Where it sits
| Music Stories | 93% |
|---|---|
| Self-Esteem & Resilience | 36% |
| Girls & Young Women | 28% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Adoption Stories
- New Baby Stories
- Stepfamily Stories
- Music Stories
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- Theater Stories
- Growing Up
- Friendship
- Runaway Stories
- Authors
- Patricia MacLachlan
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Published
- June 25, 2013
- Format
- Ebook
- Theme
- Self-understanding · Family communication · Music and practice
- Reading lane
- Adoption Stories