num_pages: 224
description: A Grand piano dangling from a helicopter over the desolate Burl Crow, on the run from his father, it offers a glimps of something rich and strange, a sign of a world beyond his own.Burl finds himself following the piano's trajectory until, cold, wet and starving, he emerges from the bush onto an isolated lake to hear music -- piano music, unlike any he's ever heard.It's here he meets Nathaniel Orlando Gow, the Maestro, standing on the deck of a remote cabin, conducting as if he were surrounded by an orchestra rather than a forest and lake. In just one day his eccentric genius changes Burl's life forever -- opening him up to a world her never imagined, one he will fight to keep, even if it means telling the biggest lie of his life.
language: English
title: The Maestro
titlecomplete: The Maestro
characters: Nathaniel Orlando Gow, Burl Crow
genres: Fiction, Canadian Literature, Abuse, Canada, School, Young Adult, Read For School, Classics, Childrens, Realistic Fiction
ratings_count: 470
awards: awardedAt: 788947200000
name: Governor General's Literary Awards / Prix littéraires du Gouverneur général
category: Children's Literature — Text, awardedAt: 820483200000
name: Canadian Library Association Young Adult Book Award, awardedAt: 883641600000
name: Manitoba Young Readers' Choice Award
publisher: Groundwood Books