Copyright © 2003 by Jeanette Ingold
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The Library of Congress has cataloged the hardcover edition as follows:
Ingold, Jeanette.
Mountain solo/Jeanette Ingold.
p. cm.
Summary: Back at her childhood home in Missoula, Montana,
after a disastrous concert in Germany, a teenage violin prodigy
contemplates giving up life with her mother in New York City and her
music as she, her father, stepmother, and stepsister hike to a pioneer
homesite where another violinist once faced difficult decisions of his own.
[1. Violinists—Fiction. 2. Family life—Montana—Fiction. 3. Mothers and
daughters—Fiction. 4. Stepfamilies—Fiction. 5. Frontier and pioneer life—
Montana—Fiction. 6. Schools—Fiction. 7. Montana—Fiction.] I. Title.
PZ7.I533Mo 2004
[Fic]—dc21 2003042326
ISBN 0-15-202670-3
ISBN 0-15-205358-1 pb
Designed by Lydia D'moch
Printed in the United States of America
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