In my neighborhood
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A search for one's place in the world provides the storyline: The narrator, a drum, feels like an outcast because he alone-unlike his family and friends-cannot play a melody. Like all kids growing up, he must find out where he fits. The narrator, a drum, wanders the streets of Coelho's vividly realized city of musical instruments-where even the birds sprout miniature trumpets from their mouths-feeling like an outcast because he alone, among all his family and neighbors, can't play a melody. He adores his violin brother, cello father, and piano mother but feels he has nothing to offer to their music. search for identity in a city of musical instruments. "My father is Cello, and oh, what a fellow. The tone of his laugh is low, smooth, and mellow. But me? My name's Drum. BOOM-CLACK, RAT-A-TAT. My head is a snare and I wear a hi-hat. My stomach's a bass drum, my arms are drumsticks, and my only song is CLICK-CLACK, CLACK-CLICK." But one day a trio of saxophones ask him to join their band, and what they tell him gives him an epiphany "So that's what a drum does! I now understand. I don't carry a tune; I carry a band." But he must still prove it to himself, and that takes all his courage...
Available copies
- 8 of 8 copies available at Westchester Library System.
Current holds
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| Eastchester Public Library | JP LOUBRIEL (Text) Juvenile Picture Book |
31008152483976 |
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| Greenburgh Public Library | JP LOUBRIEL (Text) Juvenile Picture Book |
31009154911386 |
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| New Rochelle Public Library | JP LOUBRIEL (Text) Juvenile Picture Book |
31019156474283 |
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| Pound Ridge Library District | JP LOUBRIEL (Text) Juvenile Picture Book |
31026151038799 |
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| Rye Free Reading Room | JP LOUBRIEL (Text) Juvenile Picture Book |
31028153348408 |
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| Scarsdale Public Library | JP LOUB (Text) Juvenile Picture Book |
31029500033693 |
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| The Field Library | JP LOUBRIEL (Text) Juvenile Picture Book |
31022152277924 |
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| Yonkers Grinton I. Will Library | JP (Text) Juvenile Picture Book |
31035727048034 |
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