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Play to the Angel
By Dahlberg, Maurine F.
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-0-37435-994-2
- Publisher
- New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 2000.
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on August 24, 2000
Gr 5-8 Dahlberg's first novel examines the beginnings of the Holocaust in Vienna through the eyes of a 12-year-old aspiring concert pianist. Greta's father left the family when she was three, and her brother, a promising concert pianist with hemophilia, has recently died. In the shadow of an increasingly dangerous Nazi Germany, Greta lives with her mother, a dress designer working for a Jew. Grieving and worried about finances, the woman ignores her daughter and seems painfully unawar...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
