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Author
Pub. Date
2016
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
The author reccounts how her public experiences have influenced her attitude towards the transgender community, as she works to educate others about transgenderism while navigating the challenges of being a teenager.
Author
Publisher
ABRAMS
Pub. Date
2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Hailing from the Tremé neighborhood in New Orleans, Troy "Trombone Shorty" Andrews got his nickname by wielding a trombone twice as long as he was high. A prodigy, he was leading his own band by age six, and today this Grammy-nominated artist headlines the legendary New Orleans Jazz Fest"--
3) Jazz
Author
Publisher
Live Oak Media
Pub. Date
p2007
Language
English
Description
Illustrations and rhyming text celebrate the roots of jazz music.
4) Dizzy
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
An acclaimed biographer for children, Jonah Winter brings historical figures to life for young listeners. Here he turns his talents to jazz legend John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie. Born into poverty and the victim of vicious parental abuses, Dizzy received a trumpet one day and it changed his life forever. Dizzy follows Gillespie's journey from rural South Carolina to New York City-straight into the burgeoning jazz scene he soon immersed himself in.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Looking forward to learning new steps and donning a fancy new outfit on her first day of jazz class, Mia is disappointed by her drab jazz shoes and devises a creative way to match her ensemble to her jazzy dance routine.
6) Jazzmatazz!
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Childrens Books
Pub. Date
[c2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When a mouse scurries into a house and starts to play jazz music, other animals join in, one by one, each using his or her own particular talent.
8) Utah Jazz
Author
Series
Publisher
Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO
Pub. Date
2023, c2023
Language
English
Description
This title introduces basketball fans to the history of the Utah Jazz NBA franchise. The title features informative sidebars, exciting photos, a timeline, team facts, trivia, a glossary, and an index.
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
"The other great Renaissance of black culture, influence, and glamour burst forth joyfully in what may seem an unlikely place--Pittsburgh, PA--from the 1920s through the 1950s. Today black Pittsburgh is known as the setting for August Wilson's famed plays about noble but doomed working-class strivers. But this community once had an impact on American history that rivaled the far larger black worlds of Harlem and Chicago. It published the most widely...
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Liverpool, 1935: Raised in a strict Catholic family, Viv Byrne knows what's expected of her: marry a Catholic man from her working-class neighborhood and have his children. However, when she finds herself pregnant after a fling with Joshua Levinson, a Jewish man with dreams of becoming a famous Jazz musician, Viv knows that a swift wedding is the only answer. Her only solace is that marrying Joshua will mean escaping her strict mother's scrutiny....
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Like Golden Hill, Cahokia Jazz inhabits a different version of America, and like Golden Hill it has a propulsive and brilliantly twisty plot set within a fully imagined world. Only this world is full of fog, cigarette smoke, dubious motives, danger, and dark deeds. And in the main character of Joe Barrow, we have a hero of truly heroic proportions, and a troubled soul to fall in love with. One snowy night at the end of winter, Barrow and his partner...
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