The Girl Who Heard the Music av Mahani Teave, Marni Fogelson

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<p>Mahani Teave grew up on Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island, one of the most remote islands in the world, where moai statues stand and music is everywhere. When she began taking lessons on the island''s only piano, she proved to be a great talent. She left Rapa Nui when she was just nine to continue her music education, wishing she didn''t have to leave such a beautiful place to pursue her dreams. She became an internationally acclaimed classical pianist, playing around the world for all kinds of audiences.<br><br>But her island home kept calling her back. Years later, she returned to Rapa Nui to stay, and with a new dream: to save its environment and culture. She helped create a music and arts school, so that children there could learn music in ways that kept the island''s unique traditions alive. Mahani also saw the island''s struggles with sustainability issues and pollution from tourism and ocean plastics, so the school was built using of thousands of tires, bottles, and cans