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Lesley M. M. Blume
About the Author
Lesley M. M. Blum is a journalist and writer based in New York City, where she was born. She studied history at Williams College, Oxford University, and Cambridge University. After finishing her graduate degree at Cambridge, she worked for over three years as an off-air reporter and researcher for ABC News Nightline with Ted Koppel in Washington, D.C.
She has lived and traveled extensively in Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa, and she relied heavily on the travel journals from her adventures as background material for Cornelia and the Audacious Escapades of the Somerset Sisters. Now she lives... Read More
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Cornelia and the Audacious Escapades of the Somerset Sisters
Written by Lesley M. M. Blume
eBook
Eleven-year-old Cornelia is the daughter of two world-famous pianists—a legacy that should feel fabulous, but instead feels just plain lonely. She surrounds herself with dictionaries and other books to isolate herself from the outside world. But when a glamorous neighbor named Virginia Somerset moves next door with her servant Patel and... Read More
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Cornelia and the Audacious Escapades of the Somerset Sisters
Written by Lesley M. M. Blume
Trade Paperback
Eleven-year-old Cornelia is the daughter of two world-famous pianists—a legacy that should feel fabulous, but instead feels just plain lonely. She surrounds herself with dictionaries and other books to isolate herself from the outside world. But when a glamorous neighbor named Virginia Somerset moves next door with her servant Patel and... Read More
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Cornelia and the Audacious Escapades of the Somerset Sisters
Written by Lesley M. M. Blume
Hardcover
Eleven-year-old Cornelia is the daughter of two world-famous pianists—a legacy that should feel fabulous, but instead feels just plain lonely. She surrounds herself with dictionaries and other books to isolate herself from the outside world. But when a glamorous neighbor named Virginia Somerset moves next door with her servant Patel and... Read More
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The Rising Star of Rusty Nail
Written by Lesley M. M. Blume
eBook
Franny Hansen is a 10-year-old piano prodigy living in Rusty Nail, Minnesota. Once the Coot Capitol of the world, in 1953 it's just a run-of-the-mill town with one traffic light and a bizarre cast of characters. She's long exhausted the talents of the town's only piano teacher and seems destined to... Read More
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The Rising Star of Rusty Nail
Written by Lesley M. M. Blume
Trade Paperback
★ “A story that is as rich as it is delicious.”—Booklist, Starred
Franny Hansen is a 10-year-old piano prodigy living in Rusty Nail, Minnesota. Once the Coot Capitol of the world, in 1953 it's just a run-of-the-mill town with one traffic light and a bizarre cast of characters. She's long exhausted... Read More
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The Rising Star of Rusty Nail
Written by Lesley M. M. Blume
Hardcover
Franny Hansen is a 10-year-old piano prodigy living in Rusty Nail, Minnesota. Once the Coot Capitol of the world, in 1953 it's just a run-of-the-mill town with one traffic light and a bizarre cast of characters. She's long exhausted the talents of the town's only piano teacher and seems destined to... Read More
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Tennyson
Written by Lesley M. M. Blume
Trade Paperback
“Brilliant, unusual writing.”—Chicago Tribune
On the banks of the Mississippi River, Tennyson Fontaine and her sister, Hattie, play endless games of hide-and-seek and make up fantastical stories about the latest adventures of their wild dog, Jos. But when their mother doesn’t come home and their father sets off to find her, the... Read More
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Tennyson
Written by Lesley M. M. Blume
Hardcover
It’s 1932, the Depression. Things are evening out among people everywhere. Tennyson Fontaine and her sister Hattie live in a rickety shack of a house with their mother and father and their wild dog, Jos. There is no school, only a rope swing in the living room and endless games of... Read More
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Tennyson
Written by Lesley M. M. Blume
eBook
It’s 1932, the Depression. Things are evening out among people everywhere. Tennyson Fontaine and her sister Hattie live in a rickety shack of a house with their mother and father and their wild dog, Jos. There is no school, only a rope swing in the living room and endless games of... Read More
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Tennyson
Written by Lesley M. M. Blume
Hardcover Library Binding
It’s 1932, the Depression. Things are evening out among people everywhere. Tennyson Fontaine and her sister Hattie live in a rickety shack of a house with their mother and father and their wild dog, Jos. There is no school, only a rope swing in the living room and endless games of... Read More
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