Download or read book The Rising Star of Rusty Nail written by Lesley M. M. Blume and published by Knopf Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2007 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the small town of Rusty Nail, Minnesota, in the early 1950s, musically talented ten-year-old Franny wants to take advanced piano lessons from newcomer Olga Malenkov, a famous Russian musician suspected of being a communist spy by gossipy members of the community.