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Echo : a novel

Author

Ryan, Pam Muñoz, author.

Title

Echo : a novel / by Pam Muñoz Ryan ; decoration by Dinara Mirtalipova.

Format

Book

Edition

First edition, March 2015.

Published

New York, NY : Scholastic Press, 2015. ©2015

Description

585 pages, 7 unnumbered pages ; 22 cm

Other contributors

Mirtalipova, Dinara, illustrator. Silver, Florence, former owner.

Notes

Title and statement of responsibility taken from jacket cover. From the library of Florence Silver. Bound in black and grey illustrated boards, wtih red endpapers; in purple illustrated dust jacket.

Summary

Lost in the Black Forest, Otto meets three mysterious sisters and finds himself entwined in a prophecy, a promise, and a harmonica--and decades later three children, Friedrich in Germany, Mike in Pennsylvania, and Ivy in California find themselves caught up in the same thread of destiny in the darkest days of the twentieth century, struggling to keep their families intact, and tied together by the music of the same harmonica.

Target audience

Ages 10-14. Grades: 5-9.

Awards

Newbery Honor Book, 2016

Subject headings

Harmonica--Juvenile fiction. Music--Juvenile fiction. Fate and fatalism--Juvenile fiction. Families--Juvenile fiction. Historical fiction. Germany--History--1933-1945--Juvenile fiction. Pennsylvania--History--20th century--Juvenile fiction. California--History--20th century--Juvenile fiction. California History 20th century Juvenile fiction. Germany History 1933-1945 Juvenile fiction.

Genre heading

Texas Bluebonnet Award Nominee. Historical fiction. Fiction. History. Juvenile works.

ISBN

9780439874021 0439874025 9780545576505 (e-book) 9781518107597 1518107591