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Cassie is a violin prodigy whose talent brings her joy, acclaim, and the enmity of her father, a former violin player himself. Her years of practice and the tension between her and her father builds and comes to a climax in one terrible twenty-four-hour period. One night she is playing, performing her solo debut with the youth symphony, the next she has run away from home after her father's violent outburst destroys her beloved violin. Her destination is the home of her grandfather, the man who gave her the violin and whose presence at her concert fueled her father's anger. Along the way Cassie is robbed, threatened, and ...
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Cassie is a violin prodigy whose talent brings her joy, acclaim, and the enmity of her father, a former violin player himself. Her years of practice and the tension between her and her father builds and comes to a climax in one terrible twenty-four-hour period. One night she is playing, performing her solo debut with the youth symphony, the next she has run away from home after her father's violent outburst destroys her beloved violin. Her destination is the home of her grandfather, the man who gave her the violin and whose presence at her concert fueled her father's anger. Along the way Cassie is robbed, threatened, and frightened, but she is determined to tell her grandfather in person what has happened to the violin. Her reception at her grandfather's house is not what she expects and her journey has just begun. After she returns home she must face the destruction of not only her violin but of her family as well. As she struggles to find a replacement and balance her anger toward her father with her desire to have her family intact again, she begins to learn her strengths beyond playing the violin. Reviewer: Jennifer Waldrop
School Library Journal
Gr 7–10—Cassie's big moment as the youth orchestra's violin soloist is at hand and she is excited, but also uneasy about her father's increasingly erratic behavior. She never imagines his rage will escalate to the point where he destroys the vintage violin his father gave her in acknowledgment of her musical talent. Cassie runs away, with no clear idea of where she's headed or what she'll do to survive. Taking shelter at Chicago's Union Station, she finds herself telling the whole sordid story to a sympathetic young man, Nick, as he waits for his delayed train. Feeling inexplicably determined, Cassie heads for her grandfather's house several towns away, with only a bus ticket left to her name. The distance is farther than she realizes, and she winds up spending the night in a homeless shelter for teens, where suddenly her family's problems are put in perspective. Cassie and her family face difficult times as they try to find a positive way through this drama. Baron successfully uses musical metaphors in the structure of the novel—short chapters with staccato action and slower cadences reflective of the family's struggle to work their way through this situation. Cassie at times seems far more mature and reasoned than most 14-year-olds. This is a moving story that meanders a bit too long before reaching its hopeful if not terribly realistic denouement.—Roxanne Myers Spencer, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green
Kirkus Reviews
It ought to be the best day of 14-year-old Cassie's life-the day of her violin solo with the Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra-but her always-angry dad is more jittery than usual. When her estranged grandfather appears, it's the last straw for her dad. Not long after the concert, he explodes, hurling her cat across the room and shattering her violin. Cassie flees to Pretoria in search of her grandfather but instead finds herself alone and overwhelmed in a strange city. Kind strangers, churches and teen shelters help her survive, but she's not cut out for the dangers and privations of homelessness. Returning home, Cassie joins her family on the long, hard slog toward repairing their lives. Cassie's love for the violin provides much-needed flavor for what would otherwise be a simple problem novel about emotional abuse and helpless teens. Too quickly, therapy, truth telling and interfamily trust offer the magic pill to cure PTSD. Still, this poignant story of multigenerational abuse is a compelling read. (Fiction. 11-13)

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781934813089
  • Publisher: Westside Books
  • Publication date: 9/1/2009
  • Pages: 262
  • Sales rank: 842,500
  • Age range: 14 - 17 Years
  • Lexile: HL660L (what's this?)
  • Product dimensions: 5.60 (w) x 8.50 (h) x 1.00 (d)

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  • Posted May 2, 2012

    Great read for teens, music lovers, or those who know one...

    Baron's lyrically written first novel tells Cassie's roller coaster story of triumph, heartbreak, and redemption. Just after debuting as soloist with the Chicago Youth Symphony, her life as a violin prodigy is shattered when her father destroys her violin. Fearing she'll never recover, angry and bewildered, she runs away to seek her grandfather, the musical patriarch of the family. On her journey she falls further and further from the life she's been living, only to find that the answers she seeks aren't where she thinks they are.

    "Shattered" is hard to put down. You'll be rooting for Cassie even when her choices don't seem the wisest. The characters are engaging, the story compelling, and the writing musical, as befits the subject.

    Highly recommended!

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