The Maestro

Tim Wynne-Jones

Groundwood Books Ltd, 2004 - Juvenile Fiction - 223 pages

A Grand piano dangling from a helicopter over the desolate wilderness:to Burl Crow, on the run from his father, it offers a glimps of something rich and strange, a sign of a world beyond his own.

Burl finds himself following the piano's trajectory until, cold, wet and starving, he emerges from the bush onto an isolated lake to hear music -- piano music, unlike any he's ever heard.

It's here he meets Nathaniel Orlando Gow, the Maestro, standing on the deck of a remote cabin, conducting as if he were surrounded by an orchestra rather than a forest and lake. In just one day his eccentric genius changes Burl's life forever -- opening him up to a world her never imagined, one he will fight to keep, even if it means telling the biggest lie of his life.

Contents

• Prologue Suckers Run: 7
• Part One: 13
• Part Two: 105
• 17 Skookum Airways: 108
• 18 The Love Child: 114
• 19 The Plan: 123
• 20 The Nobody: 128
• 21 Koschei the Deathless: 132
• 22 A Night in the Shadow: 136
• 23 Reggie Corngold: 146
• 24 The Score: 155
• 25 The Quest: 160
• 26 Back to Pharaoh: 164
• 27 A Windowless Night: 169
• 28 No Strings: 173
• 29 The Secret Drawer: 180
• 30 The First Trumpet: 189
• 31 New Shoes: 198
• 32 From Out of the Ruin: 203
• 33 Japheth Starlight: 211

About the author

Tim Wynne-Jones is one of Canada's foremost writers for children. The author of two dozen books, he is a two-time winner of the Governor General's Award, four-time winner of the CLA Book of the Year for Children Award, as well as the recipient of many other prizes and honours, including the Arthur Ellis Award, the Edgar Award, the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award and the Vicky Metcalf Award for a Body of Work. He lives in Perth, Ontario.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Maestro
• Author: Tim Wynne-Jones
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: Groundwood Books Ltd, 2004
• ISBN: 0888996373, 9780888996374
• Length: 223 pages
• Subjects: Juvenile Fiction / People & Places / General; Juvenile Fiction / Social Issues / General