Title: Paganini's blanket
Description: While wrestling with memories of his father, who died when the Twin Towers fell on September 11, 2001, eleven-year-old Gus, born into a family of musicians, starts taking oboe lessons, begins to compose music, and joins his sister in auditioning for a school musical.
Subjects: Fiction, Grief, Music, Schools, Self-confidence, September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001, Juvenile fiction, Children's fiction, Music, fiction, Self-confidence, fiction, Grief, fiction, Schools, fiction, Brooklyn (new york, n.y.), fiction
Places: Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)