Between her violin concertos, pressure to excel, getting perfect SATs, and just trying to be one of the cool crowd, a young Korean-American girl struggles in her senior year to meet everyone's expectations, including some of her own.

In the small town of Rusty Nail, Minnesota, in the early 1950s, musically talented ten-year-old Franny wants to take advanced piano lessons from newcomer Olga Malenkov, a famous Russian musician suspected of being a communist spy by gossipy members of the community.Believing she has learned all she can from the town's only piano teacher, Franny yearns to get out of Rusty Nail, Minnesota, but when a mysterious, famous Russian woman moves in, she hopes to take advanced lessons from her.

Product Description: Dad’s an aging L.A. punk rocker known as the Rat. Daughter’s a buttoned-up neat freak who’d rather be anywhere else. Can this summer be saved?Now that she’s exiled from Canada to sunny Los Angeles, Katy figures she’ll bury her nose in a book and ignore the fact that she’s spending two weeks with her father — punk name: the Rat — a recovered addict and drummer for the famously infamous band Suck...read more

When a piano-playing mouse stumbles into their quiet home, a family's life is never the same when the joy of music begins to spread and takes over the entire town as one-by-one people sing, dance, bang, and drum their way into the bee-bopping, jazzy jam!

Even though he only knows one note, Theo the cat wants to play the saxophone and gets a chance of a lifetime to jam with such jazz greats as Charlie Porker and Duck Ellington when a rocket ship takes him to the moon.

A follow-up to Pay the Piper finds sixteen-year-old harpist prodigy Moira disgusted by the forthcoming Princess Day traditions, while three members of a teen boy band prepare for a relaxing road trip, events that clash when the young people are transported into a mystical wilderness where a deadly struggle is taking place between a magical fox and a monstrous troll. 15,000 first printing.

There once lived a man whose head was filled with music--but the city was so noisy that he could barely hear the beautiful melodies. So he bought a house in the quiet countryside and invited other musicians to move in. Soon sounds droned and groaned, thundered and rumbled throughout the house. Find out how the musicians resolve their conflict and become a real orchestra.