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.

Murder and love―from the halls of Vienna's imperial family to a perilous gypsy campAmid the glamour of Prince Nicholas Esterhazy's court in 18th-century Vienna, murder is afoot. Or so fifteen-year-old Theresa Maria is convinced when her musician father turns up dead on Christmas Eve, his valuable violin missing, and the only clue to his death a strange gold pendant around his neck. Then her father's mentor, the acclaimed composer Franz Joseph Haydn, helps her through a difficult time by making her his copyist and giving her insight in to her father's secret life. It's there that Theresa begins to uncover a trail of blackmail and extortion, even as she discovers honor―and the possibility of a first, tentative love. Thrumming with the weeping strains of violins, as well as danger and deception, this is an engrossing tale of murder, romance, and music that readers will find hard to forget.

Product Description: ★ “A story that is as rich as it is delicious.”—Booklist, Starred Franny Hansen is a 10-year-old piano prodigy living in Rusty Nail, Minnesota. Once the Coot Capitol of the world, in 1953 it's just a run-of-the-mill town with one traffic light and a bizarre cast of characters...read more

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.