- All Magazines
- Popular Magazines: Always Available
- Cooking and Food Magazines
- Craft Magazines
- News and Politics
- See all
-
Description
-
Creators
-
Details
-
Reviews
Jewish musical prodigy Lisa Jura has a wonderful life in Vienna. But when the Nazis start closing in on the city, life changes irreversibly. Although he has three daughters, Lisa's father is only able to secure one berth on the Kindertransport. The family decides to send Lisa to London so that she may pursue her dreams of a career as a concert pianist. Separated from her beloved family, Lisa bravely endures the trip and a disastrous posting outside London before finding her way to the Willesden Lane Orphanage.
It is in this orphanage that Lisa's story truly comes to life. Her music inspires the other orphanage children, and they, in turn, cheer her on in her efforts to make good on her promise to her family to realize her musical potential. Through hard work and sheer pluck, Lisa wins a scholarship to study piano at the Royal Academy. As she supports herself and studies, she makes a new life for herself and dreams of reconnecting with the family she was forced to leave behind. The resulting tale delivers a message of the power of music to uplift the human spirit and to grant the individual soul endurance, patience, and peace.
- Mona Golabek - Author
- Lee Cohen - Author
- Mona Golabek - Narrator
OverDrive Listen audiobook
- ISBN: 9781478964445
- File size: 233757 KB
- Release date: March 15, 2016
- Duration: 08:06:59
MP3 audiobook
- ISBN: 9781478964445
- File size: 234068 KB
- Release date: March 15, 2016
- Duration: 08:06:56
- Number of parts: 7
Loading
Formats
OverDrive Listen audiobook
MP3 audiobook
subjects
Languages
English
Levels
Lexile® Measure:920
Text Difficulty:4-5