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Ada's violin

by Susan Hood · 2016

Juvenile literatureOrchestraOrchestral musiciansOrchestra, juvenile literatureMusiciansMusicians, juvenile literatureSouth america, juvenile literatureOrquesta de Instrumentos Reciclados Cateura

Ada Rios grew up in Cateura, a small town in Paraguay built on a landfill. She dreamed of playing the violin, but with little money for anything but the bare essentials, it was never an option ... until a music teacher named Favio Chavez arrived. He wanted to give the children of Cateura something special, so he made them instruments out of materials found in the trash.

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