This story is powerful and painful, but also full of love, not just boyfriend-girlfriend love, but also grandfather-granddaughter love, so much that the grandfather trusts his granddaughter even more than his son and daughter. This story is sad and heartbreaking, representing the story of a man who has gone through the most unimaginable cruelty and has seen the most heartwrenching things and finally tells his daughter the power of music and how it had been poisoned for him when it used to be his life. Shirli learns the true power of music, and finally finds herself and her family through her Zayde's story.

I love this book. A person can find out how much the Holocaust affected people. I got it from the library and could not put it down!

I LOVE THIS BOOK! I read it like a million times

I Really enjoyed reading this book. I read it in my class as an independent reading book and I always had something to write in my log. It taught me the importance of family and love even when things are rough. Every time I went back to read another chapter something new and riveting happened. CHOSE THIS BOOK!!

when Shirli auditions for a school play "fiddler on the roof" and gets in she asks her grandfather to search his attic for props and cloths she comes across a old violin case... with a sad and exciting back story. And not to mention Shirli meets one of the most popular boy in the school. This book has so many important parts, it's a hard book to stop reading it also has many emotional parts. So if you get this book I hope you have a great journey. happy reading!!