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Music on Kohatu Street
Series: The Secret Staircase
Brief Description
Twelve-year-old concert pianist Jasmin Lee has spent her life on the road. She’s brilliant, tired, and done with music. When her parents take her to Kohatu House to rest, she expects only a quiet holiday. Instead, a carved wooden arch, a whispering melody, and a secret...
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A secret staircase in an old
house takes twelve-year-old international concert pianist Jasmin Lee to 1893 –
the year New Zealand women won the right to vote. Trapped in the past with her
new friend Leo, she meets a musically gifted boy from a poor family. Can she help
him? And can she get back home?
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Description
Twelve-year-old concert pianist Jasmin
Lee has spent her life on the road. She’s brilliant, tired, and done with
music. When her parents take her to Kohatu House to rest, she expects only a
quiet holiday. Instead, a carved wooden arch, a whispering melody, and a secret
stone staircase drop her into 1893 where a musically gifted eight-year-old boy
named Jacob plays a tin whistle on dusty streets.
Trapped between two eras, Jasmin must decide whether to insist on rejecting her parents’ plan for her, or sacrifice everything for Jacob. As Jasmin and her friend Leo negotiate the world of 1893, Jasmin discovers she’s stronger than she thought, that music can mend wounds no other language can, and that friendships can defy time.
A tender, adventurous tale of courage and compromise, Music on Kohatu Street asks one quiet, bracing question: what would you be willing to give away so someone else could have a life?
Series: The Secret Staircase
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INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781738595198
Publisher: Ocean Echo Books
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 26 November 2025
Country: New Zealand
Imprint: Ocean Echo Books
DIMENSIONS
Width: 127.0mm
Height: 200.0mm
Weight: 0g
Pages: 156
About the Author
J L Williams lives in Northland, New Zealand. She writes middle grade and young adult historical and contemporary fiction, including her time-slip Secret Staircase series.
J L Williams loves reading, writing, and holidays by the sea.
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