{"product_id":"banjo-of-destiny-paperback","title":"Banjo of Destiny - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCary Fagan\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eSelcuk Demirel\u003c\/b\u003e (Illustrator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNominee for the 2012 Silver Birch Express Award in the Ontario Library Association's Forest of Reading Program.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJeremiah Birnbaum is stinking rich. He lives in a house with nine bathrooms, a games room, an exercise room, an indoor pool, a hot tub, a movie theater, a bowling alley and a tennis court. His parents, a former hotdog vendor and window cleaner who made it big in dental floss, make sure Jeremiah goes to the very best private school, and that he takes lessons in all the things he will need to know how to do as an accomplished and impressive young man: etiquette lessons, ballroom dancing, watercolor painting. And, of course, classical piano.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJeremiah complies, because he wants to please his parents. But one day, by chance, he hears the captivating strains of a different kind of music -- the strums, plucks and rhythms of a banjo. It is music that stirs something in Jeremiah's dutiful little soul, and he is suddenly obsessed. And when his parents forbid him to play one, he decides to learn anyway -- even if he has to make the instrument himself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCary Fagan\u003c\/b\u003e is an award-winning children's author who is known for his timeless, quirky and deceptively simple stories that reveal complex and universal themes. He has also written several adult novels and has been an editor and contributor to several magazines and newspapers, including the \u003ci\u003eGlobe and Mail\u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003eMontreal Gazette\u003c\/i\u003e. His work has won the City of Toronto Book Award and the Jewish Book Committee Prize for Fiction, and he has been a finalist for the TD Canadian Children's Literature Award. He lives in Toronto, Ontario. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eSelçuk Demirel\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Artvin, Turkey, in 1954. He moved to Paris in 1978 and still lives there.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 128\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.3 x 7.4 x 4.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 05, 2011\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \u003cdiv\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAccelerated Reader:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \n                \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eQuiz Name:\u003c\/strong\u003e Banjo of Destiny\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \n                \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eInterest Level:\u003c\/strong\u003e Middle Grades, 4-8\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \n                \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReading Level:\u003c\/strong\u003e 4.6\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \n                \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePoint Value:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2\u003c\/div\u003e\n                ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51771639759136,"sku":"9781554980864","price":8.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/f5d7fd663364f6a12447c70fa7825f25.webp?v=1780390139","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/banjo-of-destiny-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}