"A feel-good read that is full of truth and insight"
Interest Age 9+ Reading Age 8
Helen Rutter has a reputation for funny, authentic, touching stories of modern-day young people. Her first book with Barrington Stoke will boost that further.
Lacey is the kind of child that all teachers and children will recognise – smart but disruptive, angry, lonely, a frequent visitor to the head’s office. Written from Lacey’s point of view, we understand the turmoil and problems that make her behave the way she does, and how much she needs the calm and quiet that – to her enormous surprise – is provided by music therapy sessions.
To accommodate its young readers, the plot develops into a campaign to save the piano she plays at the station when the council plan to remove it, but by then they will understand just why the piano is so important to Lacey. It’s a story filled equally with humour and compassion, starring a young person too seldom given a voice in fiction, a feel-good read that is full of truth and insight.
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Lacey's smart tongue and quick temper are constantly getting her confined to isolation at school. But there's a lot more to her that most people never see, and when Lacey gets sent to lunch-time music lessons to keep her out of trouble, she discovers a love and talent for the piano that opens up a whole new world for her. Just as she's really beginning to make progress, her music teacher has to leave, which throws Lacey back into turmoil.
Will she go back to her self-destructive ways or will music offer her a way to save her from herself?
A touching and nuanced look at complex family relationships and the difference support can make for children both at home and at school, told with real heart and perfectly balanced humour.
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The LoveReading4Kids Editorial Team have read and reviewed The Piano at the Station and determined it is suitable for children aged 9-10 years old
The Piano at the Station features in the following genres: Dyslexia Friendly Books for Interest age 11+, Recommendations, Dyslexia Friendly Books for Interest age 9+, Music, Children’s / Teenage: General interest, Children’s, Teenage and Educational, PSHE: Self-Awareness, Self-Esteem and Wellbeing, Personal Social Health Economic (PSHE), School Stories, Children's and Young Adult Fiction, Star Books, Stories about Family and Friends, Featured Books for 9+ readers
The Piano at the Station is available in Paperback
The Piano at the Station was written by Helen Rutter and published by Barrington Stoke Ltd
The Piano at the Station has 94 pages
£7.19
