The Lucy Variations

Author : Sara Zarr
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 0316232017
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lucy Variations written by Sara Zarr and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2013-05-07 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lucy Beck-Moreau once had a promising future as a concert pianist. The right people knew her name, her performances were booked months in advance, and her future seemed certain./DIV That was all before she turned fourteen. Now, at sixteen, it's over. A death, and a betrayal, led her to walk away. That leaves her talented ten-year-old brother, Gus, to shoulder the full weight of the Beck-Moreau family expectations. Then Gus gets a new piano teacher who is young, kind, and interested in helping Lucy rekindle her love of piano -- on her own terms. But when you're used to performing for sold-out audiences and world-famous critics, can you ever learn to play just for yourself? National Book Award finalist Sara Zarr takes readers inside one girl's struggle to reclaim her love of music and herself. To find joy again, even when things don't go according to plan. Because life isn't a performance, and everyone deserves the chance to make a few mistakes along the way.

Author : Sara Zarr
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0316232017
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lucy Variations written by Sara Zarr and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2013-05-07 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lucy Beck-Moreau once had a promising future as a concert pianist. The right people knew her name, her performances were booked months in advance, and her future seemed certain. That was all before she turned fourteen. Now, at sixteen, it's over. A death, and a betrayal, led her to walk away. That leaves her talented ten-year-old brother, Gus, to shoulder the full weight of the Beck-Moreau family expectations. Then Gus gets a new piano teacher who is young, kind, and interested in helping Lucy rekindle her love of piano -- on her own terms. But when you're used to performing for sold-out audiences and world-famous critics, can you ever learn to play just for yourself? National Book Award finalist Sara Zarr takes readers inside one girl's struggle to reclaim her love of music and herself. To find joy again, even when things don't go according to plan. Because life isn't a performance, and everyone deserves the chance to make a few mistakes along the way.

Author : Sara Zarr
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 0316029173
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Story of a Girl (National Book Award Finalist) written by Sara Zarr and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2008-03-01 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now a movie on Lifetime! I was thirteen when my dad caught me with Tommy Webber in the back of Tommy's Buick, parked next to the old Chart House down in Montara at eleven o'clock on a Tuesday night. Tommy was seventeen and the supposed friend of my brother, Darren. I didn't love him. I'm not sure I even liked him. In a moment, Deanna Lambert's teenage life is changed forever. Struggling to overcome the lasting repercussions and the stifling role of "school slut," Deanna longs to escape a life defined by her past. With subtle grace, complicated wisdom, and striking emotion, Story of a Girl reminds us of our human capacity for resilience, epiphany, and redemption.

Author : Lucy Fischer
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813547156
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Cinema of the 1920s written by Lucy Fischer and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2009-04-15 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the 1920s, sound revolutionized the motion picture industry and cinema continued as one of the most significant and popular forms of mass entertainment in the world. Film studios were transformed into major corporations, hiring a host of craftsmen and technicians including cinematographers, editors, screenwriters, and set designers. The birth of the star system supported the meteoric rise and celebrity status of actors including Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Joan Crawford, Greta Garbo, and Rudolph Valentino while black performers (relegated to "race films") appeared infrequently in mainstream movies. The classic Hollywood film style was perfected and significant film genres were established: the melodrama, western, historical epic, and romantic comedy, along with slapstick, science fiction, and fantasy. In ten original essays, American Cinema of the 1920s examines the film industry's continued growth and prosperity while focusing on important themes of the era.

Author : Sara Zarr
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 0316217522
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Roomies written by Sara Zarr and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2013-12-24 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The countdown to college has begun. When Elizabeth receives her freshman-year roommate assignment at the beginning of summer, she shoots off an email to coordinate the basics: TV, microwave, mini-fridge. She can't wait to escape her New Jersey beach town, and her mom, and start life over in California. That first message comes as a surprise to Lauren in San Francisco; she had requested a single. But if Lauren's learned anything from being the oldest of six, it's that you can't always get what you want, especially when what you want is privacy. Soon the girls are e-mailing back and forth, sharing secrets even though they've never met. With childhood friendships and family relationships strained by change, it suddenly seems that the only people Elizabeth and Lauren can rely on are the complicated new boys in their lives...and each other. With humor and heart, Sara Zarr, National Book Award finalist for Story of a Girl, and Tara Altebrando, acclaimed author of The Pursuit of Happiness, join forces for a novel about that time after high school when everything feels like it's ending just as it's beginning.

Author : Lynne Rae Perkins
Publisher : Greenwillow Books
ISBN 13 : 9780061870927
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book As Easy as Falling Off the Face of the Earth written by Lynne Rae Perkins and published by Greenwillow Books. This book was released on 2012-04-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wait The train was moving. Ry could hardly tell at first, but now he knew. It was gaining speed, and he wasn't fast enough to catch it. He had only gotten off for a minute, just to make a phone call—and now it was gone. He was in the middle of nowhere, alone. Maybe it was the middle of nowhere, but to Ry, it felt like the beginning of something. Something that would take him in cars, planes, boats . . . over an ocean and back. Something like an adventure.

Author : Ronald Koertge
Publisher : Candlewick Press
ISBN 13 : 0763658529
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare Makes the Playoffs written by Ronald Koertge and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2012-03-13 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fourteen-year-old Kevin Boland, poet and first baseman, is torn between his cute girlfriend Mira and Amy, who is funny, plays Chopin on the piano, and is also a poet.

Author : Daniel Kraus
Publisher : Ember
ISBN 13 : 0385737343
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Monster Variations written by Daniel Kraus and published by Ember. This book was released on 2012-10-23 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On his way to State University, nineteen-year-old James runs into a former friend and is immersed in memories from the year they were twelve and learned that monsters exist in the world--and within themselves.

Author : Joan Wickersham
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307958892
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The News from Spain written by Joan Wickersham and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-10-09 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A San Francisco Chronicle and NPR Best Book of the Year The author of the acclaimed memoir The Suicide Index returns with a virtuosic collection of stories, each a stirring parable of the power of love and the impossibility of understanding it. Spanning centuries and continents, from eighteenth-century Vienna to contemporary America, Joan Wickersham shows, with uncanny exactitude, how we never really know what’s in someone else’s heart—or in our own.

Author : Sara Zarr
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 0316072397
Total Pages : 151 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Once Was Lost written by Sara Zarr and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2009-10-01 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Samara Taylor used to believe in miracles. She used to believe in a lot of things. As a pastor's kid, it's hard not to buy in to the idea of the perfect family, a loving God, and amazing grace. But lately, Sam has a lot of reason to doubt. Her mother lands in rehab after a DUI and her father seems more interested in his congregation than his family. When a young girl in her small town is kidnapped, the local tragedy overlaps with Sam's personal one, and the already-worn thread of faith holding her together begins to unravel. In her third novel, acclaimed author Sara Zarr examines the coexistence of affliction and hope, and what happens when everything you thought you believed---about God, about your family, about yourself---is transformed.