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The Kugel Valley Klezmer Band

By Stuchner, Joan Betty & Row, Richard D.

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Oh, how Shira loves the fiddle! Every time the Kugel Valley Klezmer Band performs, ten-year-old Shira watches closely. Isaac, the best fiddle player this side of Nova Scotia, sees her watching, and gives her a toy fiddle. "Practice," says Isaac. "Practice, practice, practice." So, secretly, Shira practices; and soon she thinks she sounds pretty good. But is she good enough for a real fiddle? Good enough for the Kugel Valley Klezmer Band? Good enough for her whole village? Shira is about to find out!

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ISBN
978-1-56656-430-4
Publisher
Crocodile Books


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Reviewed on June 1, 2002

PreS-Gr 1 A fiddle player, Isaac, wants to retire and his clarinetist's daughter, Shira, wants to play the fiddle, but her father tells her that "no ten-year-old girl has ever played in a klezmer band." However, Isaac secretly makes her a toy fiddle, and after he falls sick, she fills in for him, proving her worth and prompting her father to give her the real thing for Hanukkah. In an attempt to introduce unfamiliar readers to the Jewi...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

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