8vo - 21 x 13.5 cm; 173 pp. Light cream coloured cloth over boards with gilt lettering on spine. First edition. Paperny's earlier books won the Canada Council Award for Juvenile Literature. This story is about a young boy and his struggle with wanting to be one of the guys versus his gift for music, the violin in particular. Set in Calgary during the Second World War. The dust jacket shows mild edge wear.

Children; Fiction; Literature; Calgary; Canlit; Can Lit; Juvenile Paperny Music Peer Pressure