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"Maggie is a young girl with fiery red hair, and is a child full of love and compassion. When her teacher's flute gets stolen she takes up a collection to buy him a new one, but the teacher announces their are people in their community in desperate need of money and asks them to take a collection. After talking with her best friend Summer who is dying of a lung sickness and praying she decides that her teacher would want them to donate the money to the families in need. When she goes later to tell Summer the idea of throwing a party for their teacher they plan together to have a penny whistle made for him. Summer dies before the gift can be completed and Maggie's hearts broken but their teacher helps her through this, and in turn she helps him once again find the gift of music.
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Michelle Kidwell, Resident Scholar
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Kids growing up/acting up?
Yes
Internal struggle/realization?
Yes
Struggle over
- dying
Is this an adult or child's book?
- Age 11-14
Coping with loss of loved one(s)
Yes
Loss of...
- good friends
Age group of kid(s) in story:
- grade school
Main Character
Gender
- Female
Profession/status:
- student
Age:
- a kid
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Ethnicity/Nationality
- German
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Main Adversary
Identity:
- none
Setting
Small town?
Yes
Small town people:
- nice, like Andy/Opie/Aunt Bee
Style
Person
- mostly 3rd
Accounts of torture and death?
- moderately detailed references to deaths
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