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Svingen, Arne

The Ballad of a Broken Nose

214 pp. | McElderry | June, 2016 | Trade ISBN 978-1-4814-1542-2 $16.99 | Ebook ISBN 978-1-4814-1544-6
(2) 4-6 Translated by Kari Dickson. Bart doesn't want his schoolmates to know he lives in a rundown tenement with his equally rundown mother; even more, he doesn't want them to know about his passion for opera singing. Svingen avoids sentimentality, balancing Bart's essential optimism with real challenges: the neighborhood is truly rough, Bart's mother is very sick, the school bullying is acute. But he really can sing.
Reviewer: Roger Sutton | Horn Book Magazine Issue: July, 2016

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