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Ada's Violin

Susan Hood & Sally Wern Comport

Ages: 

4 - 8

Pre-School, Early Elementary, Mid Elementary

Level: 

Non-fiction

Ada Ríos grew up in Cateura, a small town in Paraguay built on a landfill. She dreamed of playing the violin, but with little money for anything but the bare essentials, it was never an option...until a music teacher named Favio Chávez arrived. He wanted to give the children of Cateura something special, so he made them instruments out of materials found in the trash. It was a crazy idea, but one that would leave Ada—and her town—forever changed.

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