Anna Maria’s Gift
Anna Maria’s Gift
By Zoe Jacobson, Age 15, Literary Editor of TweenTribune
Anna Maria’s Gift by Janice Shefelman is a wonderful story of a young girl who is passionate about her violin. Anna Maria is sent off to an orphanage,after her father dies and continues her study of her violin there. She misses her father greatly, but believes she can hear his voice through the instrument and plays often.
Conflicts ensue when a jealous classmate throws Anna Maria’s violin out of the orphanage window and into Venice’s canals. For weeks everyone searches the canals for the violin that her father made for her before he died, but it can't be found. Finally, when it seems as though Anna Maria will never have her violin back she hears music floating down the streets. She must track down her violin and prove herself worthy of this great violin before it is too late.
I really liked this book, it was so sweet and innocent. But that was one of the problems with the book – everyone was happy in the end and even though her dad died she wasn’t really all that upset by it. But I imagine that all children’s books are that way, I just haven’t read one in a while. Still, wonderfully done.
Ages: 7-10
- Posted on May 26, 2010
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Only if I could be her because I always wanted to learn how 2 play the violin I always think playing the violin cool how it makes the sound of it!!Of course one of my family members played the violin and it was my mom and dad they were both good at playing the violin.
Although it's for ages from 7-10, but I guess I will love reading it since I've watched a movie that it's story was similar with that book and that was really wonderful. The advantage in fiction stories is that we can feel and imagine what we are reading about and that could help us to live the story and sometimes think our self as character in the story that we are reading about.
I have never read this book before, but it sounds like a book that I would really enjoy reading.
Just reading this, made me really want to read the book.
This sounds like a really fantastic book. I think i might read it over the summer when I am free of book reports and everything! I could probably really connect to this story because I play the viola.
My older sister used to play the violin but now we both do the piano. I think this would be a great book and I think that this book could inspire many people. I wish that my library at school would have this book. I know how it feels to be connected with something and lose it. Except mine wasn't about jealousy and it was not a violin. I know many people who play the violin so it would be great if they could read it.
I sometimes I wish I could play the violion but in my dreams I can but I know it's never going to come true. No matter what I think of doing I could do best is draw and paint it dosen't matter what. The main thing I can do the best is loving my family and friends'.
Ann Maria'sGift she is a girl who loved to play the Violin. but some day she misses her father greatly because he had died but she believe that she hears his voice when she playing the violin.
It sounds very good! I'm really excited to read this! I happen to love happy endings! So excited! I woder where her violin back? I really hope she gets idt back in the end. I have not read it but plan on reading it!
This sounds like a wonderful book she must be so sad when she loses the one thing that her father made for her plus she loves her violin very much and if it seems that she can speak to her father through the violin this must be a good book.
This book does not seem that interesting. It reminds me of August Rush. The boy was an orphan, who found his parents through music. That is pretty familiar. I do not think that I would read this book. I hope the girl does find her violin, and continues to play.