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A young newspaper report gets the chance of her career: to tell the untold story of the world’s greatest violin player, Paolo Levi. Levi is known for being difficult to interview and will walk out on any reporter who asks him why he refuses to play the music of Mozart.

But this interview is different. Levi has decided it is time to tell the tragic but inspiring tale of his parents who he learns are survivors of the Nazi concentration camps. His parents survived because they were musicians who were forced to play the music of Mozart to calm their fellow Jews as they arrived at the camps.

This may end up being next year’s Newbery Medal winner. A brief and powerful combination of words by Morpurgo and watercolor paintings by Michael Foreman.