02401cam a2200397 4500 607524404 TxAuBib 20210824120000.0 180302s2019||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2018010123 9781481487405 148148740X DLC eng DLC ICrlF TxAuBib Engle, Margarita. Dancing hands : how Teresa Carreño played the piano for President Lincoln / Margarita Engle ; [illustrated by] Rafael López. New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, [2019] 1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 28 cm. Publishers Weekly, July 2019. Kirkus Starred, June 2019. Booklist, June 2019. Horn Book, September 2019. "Tell[s] the story of Teresa Carreño, a child prodigy who played piano for Abraham Lincoln"--Provided by publisher. "As a little girl, Teresa Carreño loved to let her hands dance across the beautiful keys of the piano. If she felt sad, music cheered her up, and when she was happy, the piano helped her share that joy. Soon she was writing her own songs and performing in grand cathedrals. Then a revolution in Venezuela forced her family to flee to the United States. Teresa felt lonely in this unfamiliar place, where few of the people she met spoke Spanish. Worst of all, there was fighting in her new home, too -- the Civil War. Still, Teresa kept playing, and soon she grew famous as the talented Piano Girl who could play anything from a folk song to a sonata. So famous, in fact, that President Abraham Lincoln wanted her to play at the White House! Yet with the country torn apart by war, could Teresa's music bring comfort to those who needed it most?". 5.0. K-3 Follett School Solutions. 5th Grade RL (5.5) AR Find. 20210824. Pura Belpre Award/Honors, 2020. Carreño, Teresa 1853-1917 Juvenile literature. Carreño, Teresa 1853-1917. Lincoln, Abraham 1809-1865 Juvenile literature. Lincoln, Abraham 1809-1865. Pianists United States Biography Juvenile literature. Pianists. López, Rafael, 1961-, ill. TXMIT