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Second Fiddle, or How to Tell a Blackbird from a Sausage
180 pp.
| Roaring Brook |
April, 2007 |
TradeISBN 978-1-59643-122-5$16.95
(2)
4-6
Twelve-year-old Mags is a writer. Gillian is a violinist. They form a prickly friendship based on Gillian's desire to attend the prestigious Yehudi Menuhin school and Mags's determination to get Gillian's parents to send her. Mags is a true original, struggling to define herself against the stories she knows, and it's this ironic awareness that makes her so thoroughly appealing.
Reviewer: Vicky Smith
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
March, 2007