02346cam a2200373 4500 425345069 TxAuBib 20200516120000.0 180302s2019||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781481487405 148148740X TxAuBib Engle, Margarita. Dancing hands : how Teresa Carreño played the piano for President Lincoln / Margarita Engle ; Rafael López. First edition. New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, [2019] ©2019. 32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm. 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? -- From dust jacket. Ages 4-8. NC1260L lexile. Sentence length: 5 (very hard) Word frequency: 1 (very easy) lexile. Accelerated Reader LG 5.5 0.5. 20200516. Pura Belpré Illustrator Award, 2020. Carreño, Teresa 1853-1917 Juvenile literature. Lincoln, Abraham 1809-1865 Juvenile literature. Pianists United States Biography Juvenile literature. Gifted children Biography Juvenile literature. Child musicians Biography Juvenile literature. United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Juvenile non-fiction. Picture books. López, Rafael, illustrator.