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Playing Dad's Song

D. Dina Friedman

4/5 ( ratings)

Gus Moskowitz knows that sixth graders are too old to curl up under a quilt, but that's the only place he can hide from the school bully, his nagging older sister, and, worst of all, his father's death. It's been two years since Gus's father was killed in the World Trade Center, and Gus can't figure out how to move on. His mother thinks he needs to do something - anything - so she rents him an oboe and signs him up for lessons with her boss's elderly father, Mr. M. As Gus's friendship with Mr. M. develops, so does his passion for classical music, and soon he decides to compose a song of his own, a tribute to his father. But even if Gus can find a way to wrap up his father's life in a single song, will he ever find the courage to play it?
In turns playful and poignant, "Playing Dad's Song" personalizes the losses at the World Trade Center in New York City by focusing on one child's struggle with the tragedy.

Language: English

Pages: 131

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux

Release: September 05, 2006

ISBN: 0374371733

ISBN 13: 9780374371739

Playing Dad's Song

D. Dina Friedman

4/5 ( ratings)

Gus Moskowitz knows that sixth graders are too old to curl up under a quilt, but that's the only place he can hide from the school bully, his nagging older sister, and, worst of all, his father's death. It's been two years since Gus's father was killed in the World Trade Center, and Gus can't figure out how to move on. His mother thinks he needs to do something - anything - so she rents him an oboe and signs him up for lessons with her boss's elderly father, Mr. M. As Gus's friendship with Mr. M. develops, so does his passion for classical music, and soon he decides to compose a song of his own, a tribute to his father. But even if Gus can find a way to wrap up his father's life in a single song, will he ever find the courage to play it?
In turns playful and poignant, "Playing Dad's Song" personalizes the losses at the World Trade Center in New York City by focusing on one child's struggle with the tragedy.

Language: English

Pages: 131

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux

Release: September 05, 2006

ISBN: 0374371733

ISBN 13: 9780374371739

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