The Facts and Fictions of Minna Pratt (Charlotte Zolotow Books (Paperback))

Minna wishes for many things. She wishes she understood the quote taped above her mother's typewriter: Fact and fiction are different truths . She wishes her mother would stop writing long enough to really listen to her. She wishes her house were peaceful and orderly like her friend Lucas's. Most of all, she wishes she could find a vibrato on her cello and play Mozart the way he deserves to be played. Minna soon discovers that some things can't be found-they just have to happen . And as she waits for her vibrato to happen, Minna begins to understand some facts and fictions about herself. An eleven-year-old cellist learns about life from her eccentric family, her first boyfriend, and the composer Mozart. Melinda Pratt rides city bus number twelve to her cello lesson, wearing her mother's jean jacket and only one sock.