Set in a trailer park called Paradise

"You're just wasting your God-given talents if you don't get yourself something besides a little ole harmonica to play." Wylene made it sound so easy. Martin had always like music -- liked to listen to it, liked to make up tunes in his head. But all he had to do was say the word "piano" to his father and all hell would break loose. His father thought music was for sissies, and was always mad at Martin for not being good at baseball. But with a lot of help from his friends Wylene and Sybil and his grandmother, Hazeline, Martin learns that, although he can't change his father, he can learn to stick up for himself. With humor, pathos, and a colorful cast of offbeat characters, Barbara O'Connor shows that there's room for genius wherever there's a place for compassion-- even in Paradise.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Byr)
Published: 09/10/1999
ISBN: 9780374405885
Pages: 168
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.00w x 0.50d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 09/27/1999

Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 78269 / Beethoven in Paradise
Reading Level: 4.5 / Interest Level: Middle Grade / Point Value: 5