This book made the news this summer when President Obama bought a copy for his daughters at an Iowa bookstore. It is the story of ten year old Christina, who lives a very sheltered life in an old mansion. Her father is a mathematician who expects her to follow in his footsteps (she hates math!). Her mother, a scientist, disappeared when Christina was just a toddler. After discovering a secret tunnel from her house to the forest, Christina learns that children from a local orphanage are being held in prison-like conditions and forced to mine a substance called zoom (a fuel). Zoom lies dormant until someone sings a sequence of notes with perfect pitch (none of the children have perfect pitch). Only pitch-perfect Christina can save the day in this imaginative adventure story by Lynne Jonell. This could be a good read-aloud for middle grades.
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