num_pages: 32
description: Nina is born to a poor but loving family that can't bear to see their daughter's gift for music go to waste. So they make the difficult decision to give her up to the care of the famous Pieta orphanage in Venice. There her talent will be nurtured under the tutelage of Vivaldi himself. Everything goes according to plan until one day Nina is faced with her own difficult decision. Should she risk expulsion to sing for a dying boy whom she feels is family? Here is a powerful story about the different paths to bravery and the many ways to be a family . . . McCully at her best.
language: English
title: The Orphan Singer
titlecomplete: The Orphan Singer
genres: Childrens, Italy, Music, Picture Books, Historical Fiction
ratings_count: 69
places: Venice
publisher: Arthur A. Levine Books