Music Boxes

Music Boxes
by Tonja Drecker
Genre: Middle Grade Fantasy
I only desire your talent…”
Twelve-year-old Lindsey McKay’s biggest dream is to be a famous ballerina. But after moving to New York, she ends up at the Community Center with a teacher who’s a burly bear in tights.
When she meets Madame Destinée, the teacher of a top dance school who offers her classes for free, Lindsey can’t believe her luck. In exchange, she must perform in the school’s exclusive midnight shows, ones sure to make her a star. But something’s not right…
One by one, the other dancers disappear. Each time they do, a music box with a figurine just like the missing ballerina joins Madame Destinée’s growing collection. If Lindsey doesn’t discover the truth about the dance school, she might end up a tiny figurine herself.
**Music Boxes was recommended by The Barnes & Noble Kids Blog as one of the 5 Spooky New Middle Grade Books for Campfire Chills!!**
**Now available in audiobook!!**
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After finishing her BA in International Studies at the University of Denver, Tonja Drecker spent many years in Europe devouring chocolate, cheese and wine while investigating the birth places of myths, legends and mysterious tales.
Currently residing somewhere in the back woods of the Ozarks, she writes away while tending to chickens, cows and her family of six. Her stories have been published in several collections and magazines including In the Shadow of the Eagle’s Eye in REAL GIRLS DON’T RUST (Spencer Hill Press, 2013), A GLOWWORM (Black and White Publishing Company, 2017) and Meringue, Murder and Marzipan in FULL DARK (Obsidian Books, 2017) . She’s an avid book reader, professional children’s book reviewer, outdoor addict and always in search of a new adventure (based in reality, the imagination, or otherwise).
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6 thoughts on “Music Boxes

      1. Oh wow. There are a few, I wish I could share. But I’ll choose this one:
        “So you see, being nervous can make us blind to usually obvious things.” or maybe this one? “Things are as they should be. Everything carries a purpose and a time.” 🙂 Thanks for asking!

          1. Honestly, I’m not sure. The image of hundreds of music boxes piled onto shelves with a sinister dance teacher popped into my head while I was weeding my garden. It must have been the nasty thorns on the blackberry shoots. 🙂

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