Dancing Hands: How Teresa Carreño Played the Piano for President Lincoln cover

Dancing Hands: How Teresa Carreño Played the Piano for President Lincoln

Author: Engle, Margarita

Reading Metrics

Grade Level Lower Grades (LG K-3)
Book Level 5.5
Points 0.5
Fiction/Nonfiction Nonfiction
Word Count 880
Points per Word 0.000568
Page Count 36
Points per Page 0.013889

Description

The book tells the story of Teresa Carreño, a young girl from Venezuela who was a piano prodigy. When her family moved to the United States during the Civil War, she was invited to play piano for President Abraham Lincoln at the White House. The story follows her as she uses music to express her emotions, from sadness to joy, and eventually becomes a celebrated composer and performer.