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Blume, Lesley M. M.
The rising star of Rusty Nail / Lesley M. M. Blume. — 1st ed. p. cm.
SUMMARY: In the small town of Rusty Nail, Minnesota, in the early 1950s, musically
talented, ten-year-old Franny wants to take advanced piano lessons from newcomer
Olga Malenkov, a famous Russian musician suspected of being a communist spy by
gossipy members of the community.
eISBN: 978-0-307-49021-6
[1. Piano—Fiction. 2. Musicians—Fiction. 3. Russian Americans—Fiction.
4. Country life—Minnesota—Fiction. 5. Minnesota—History—20th century—
Fiction.] I. Title.
PZ7.B62567Ri 2007 [Fic]—dc22 2006024252
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