Banjo of Destiny

Cary Fagan, Selcuk Demirel

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Groundwood Books Ltd ,Canada
03 December 2012

Nominee for the 2012 Silver Birch Express Award in the Ontario Library Association's Forest of Reading Program.

Jeremiah Birnbaum is stinking rich. He lives in a house with nine bathrooms, a games room, an exercise room, an indoor pool, a hot tub, a movie theater, a bowling alley and a tennis court. His parents, a former hotdog vendor and window cleaner who made it big in dental floss, make sure Jeremiah goes to the very best private school, and that he takes lessons in all the things he will need to know how to do as an accomplished and impressive young man: etiquette lessons, ballroom dancing, watercolor painting. And, of course, classical piano.

Jeremiah complies, because he wants to please his parents. But one day, by chance, he hears the captivating strains of a different kind of music -- the strums, plucks and rhythms of a banjo. It is music that stirs something in Jeremiah's dutiful little soul, and he is suddenly obsessed. And when his parents forbid him to play one, he decides to learn anyway -- even if he has to make the instrument himself.

By: Cary Fagan
Illustrated by: Selcuk Demirel
Imprint: Groundwood Books Ltd ,Canada
Country of Publication: Canada
Dimensions: Height: 190mm, Width: 127mm, Spine: 8mm
Weight: 127g
ISBN: 9781554980864
ISBN 10: 1554980860
Pages: 128
Publication Date: 03 December 2012
Recommended Age: From 9 years
Audience: Children/juvenile , English as a second language , English as a second language
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Cary Fagan is an award-winning children's author who is known for his timeless, quirky and deceptively simple stories that reveal complex and universal themes. He has also written several adult novels and has been an editor and contributor to several magazines and newspapers, including the Globe and Mail and the Montreal Gazette. His work has won the City of Toronto Book Award and the Jewish Book Committee Prize for Fiction, and he has been a finalist for the TD Canadian Children's Literature Award. Helives in Toronto, Ontario. Selcuk Demirel was born in Artvin, Turkey, in 1954. He moved to Paris in 1978 and still lives there.

Reviews for Banjo of Destiny

[A] sweet, quiet, and neatly packaged tale that emphasizes the importance of hard work and following your dreams in the face of adversity. -- School Library Journal

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Banjo of Destiny

Cary Fagan, Selcuk Demirel

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