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School Library Journal
Reviewed on October 1, 2014 | Grades 5-8
Gr 7 Up—The music referred to in the title refers to the chorus of voices that narrate this elegiac story set in North Carolina in the years following the end of the Civil War. At the center of the story is Rainy, a 10-year-old girl who knows very little about her personal history. Abandoned on a doorstep as a baby, she lives peacefully with Will, a kind farmer, and his son, Ben, but when a series of valuable gifts (that are seemingly meant for Rainy) begin t...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on October 1, 2014
Sauerwein's atmospheric narrative, set ten years after the Civil War, explores turning points in the lives of a dozen characters and, in thirty short chapters, unveils their interlocking relationships. Young Rainy, a foundling raised by widower Will, begins finding mysterious, valuable gifts left by Rose -- a child "thin and dark" who lives down the North Carolina mountain with her mother, th...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Guide
Reviewed on January 1, 2014
Sauerwein's atmospheric narrative, set ten years after the Civil War, explores turning points in the lives of a dozen characters and, in thi...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
