_By_ SOPHIE RUSKAY
_Illustrated by Janet D’Amato_
Judy is a young girl just past her fifteenth year. Her parents are
musicians—staff members at the Music School at Aspen—and they are
anxious for her to share with them some of the enchantment of the famed
music festival in Colorado.
But for Judy other plans and other dreams are more important. A part in
the new theatre group? Romance? Adventure? Anything but the dreary
routine of piano lessons and practice. In her attempt to escape the
discipline of the musician’s life, she explores Aspen and inadvertently
finds herself caught up in the lore of the early mining history of that
community. Baby Doe, the old Opera House, the ghost town of Ashcroft are
mysterious wonders which begin to awaken in her a new interest in her
surroundings. Her meeting with Karl, a talented refugee from Nazi
Austria, and their adventures together on the snowy mountain cliffs help
to fulfill her dreams of romantic love—an experience through which she
attains not only the depth and understanding of her parents but her own
maturity.
What threatens to be a dismal summer for Judy becomes a time of
discovery of herself, of music and of America.
_A Wonderful World Book_