Private lessons /
Salaysay, Cynthia,
Private lessons / - First edition. - 308 pages ; 22 cm
Seventeen-year-old Claire Alalay likes herself best when she plays her father's old piano, a welcome escape from the sadness of missing him -- and from her traditional Filipino mother's prayer groups. After placing third in a local competition, and with hopes of earning a college scholarship, Claire auditions for Paul Avon, a prominent piano teacher, who agrees to take Claire as a pupil. Soon Claire loses herself in Paul's world and his way of digging into a composition's emotional core. She practices constantly, foregoing a social life, but no matter how hard she works, it seems impossible to gain Paul's approval, let alone his affection.--Author Cynthia Salaysay.
9781536209600 1536209600
Teacher-student relationships--Juvenile fiction.
Piano--Performance--Juvenile fiction.
Teenage girls--Fiction.
Piano teachers--Fiction.
Teacher-student relationships--Fiction.
Coming of age--Fiction.
Young adult fiction.
Bildungsromans
813.6
Private lessons / - First edition. - 308 pages ; 22 cm
Seventeen-year-old Claire Alalay likes herself best when she plays her father's old piano, a welcome escape from the sadness of missing him -- and from her traditional Filipino mother's prayer groups. After placing third in a local competition, and with hopes of earning a college scholarship, Claire auditions for Paul Avon, a prominent piano teacher, who agrees to take Claire as a pupil. Soon Claire loses herself in Paul's world and his way of digging into a composition's emotional core. She practices constantly, foregoing a social life, but no matter how hard she works, it seems impossible to gain Paul's approval, let alone his affection.--Author Cynthia Salaysay.
9781536209600 1536209600
Teacher-student relationships--Juvenile fiction.
Piano--Performance--Juvenile fiction.
Teenage girls--Fiction.
Piano teachers--Fiction.
Teacher-student relationships--Fiction.
Coming of age--Fiction.
Young adult fiction.
Bildungsromans
813.6