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Jimi: Sounds Like a Rainbow: a Story of the Young Jimi Hendrix
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Laban Carrick Hill
Harlem's Little Blackbird: The Story of Florence Mills
Renee Watson · 40 pages
Duke Ellington: The Piano Prince and His Orchestra
Andrea Davis Pinkney · 32 pages
A brief recounting of the career of this jazz musician and composer who, along with his orchestra, created music that was beyond category.
Little Melba and Her Big Trombone
Katheryn Russell-Brown
"A biography of African American musician Melba Doretta Liston, a virtuoso musician who played the trombone and composed and arranged music for many of the great jazz musicians of the twentieth century. Includes afterword, discography, and sources"-- This picture-book biography introduces African American Melba Doretta Liston, who played the trombone and composed and arranged music for many of
Josephine: The Dazzling Life of Josephine Baker
Patricia Hruby Powell
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm790L Lexile
When Marian Sang: The True Recital of Marian Anderson
Pam Munoz Ryan · 40 pages
An introduction to the life of Marian Anderson, extraordinary singer and civil rights activist, who was the first African American to perform at the Metropolitan Opera, whose life and career encouraged social change.
The Golden Voice of Africa
Karen Ehrhardt; illustrated by Colin Bootman
Rap A Tap Tap, Here's Bojangles - Think of That!
Leo Dillon, Diane Dillon
The Children of Willesden Lane. Beyond the Kindertransport: A Memoir of Music, Love, and Survival
Mona Golabek, Lee Cohen · 288 pages
World-renowned concert pianist Mona Golabek shares her mother's journey through World War II and of the extraordinary gift that became her enduring legacy to her daughter, the gift of music.
Heavier Than Heaven: The Biography of Kurt Cobain
Charles R. Cross · 400 pages
To Selena, With Love
Chris Perez · 320 pages
Chris Perez tells the story of his relationship with music superstar Selena in this heartfelt tribute. One of the most compelling and adored superstars in Latin music history, Selena was nothing short of a phenomenon who shared all of herself with her millions of devoted fans. Her tragic murder, at the young age of twenty-three, stripped the world of her talent and boundless potential, her tigh
The Tree Lady: The True Story of How One Tree-Loving Woman Changed a City Forever
H. Joseph Hopkins · 32 pages
Learn about Katherine Olivia Sessions who brought trees to San Diego and created what eventually became Balboa Park.
Jazz Day: The Making of a Famous Photograph
Roxane Orgill · 60 pages
When Esquire magazine planned an issue to salute the American jazz scene in 1958, graphic designer Art Kane pitched a crazy idea: how about gathering a group of beloved jazz musicians and photographing them? He didn t own a good camera, didn t know if any musicians would show up, and insisted on setting up the shoot in front of a Harlem brownstone.
Jim Morrison: Life, Death, Legend
Stephen Davis · 482 pages
"Jim Morrison's poetic vision, electrifying live performances, and voracious appetite for sexual, spiritual, and psychedelic experience inflamed the spirit and psyche of a generation. During his scorching rise to stardom as the lead singer of the Doors in the 1960s, his voice and lyrics reached out to the darkest thoughts and most passionate desires of fans around the world." "In Jim Morrison, cr
The Love You Make: An Insider's Story of the Beatles
Peter Brown, Stephen Gaines · 433 pages
Presents the lives of the four Beatles and material on their retinue, rise to fame, and lives after the breakup of the group.
I am Abraham Lincoln
Brad Meltzer · 40 pages
Focusing on a character trait that makes the featured role model heroic, this book shows how Abraham Lincoln always spoke up about fairness. Abraham Lincoln always spoke up about fairness and thus led the country to abolish slavery. This simple biography follows him from childhood to the presidency, including the Civil War and his legendary Gettysburg Address.
Please Be with Me: A Song for My Father, Duane Allman
Galadrielle Allman · 385 pages
Portrait of Duane Allman, founder of the legendary Allman Brothers Band, written by his daughter Galadrielle.
She Persisted
Chelsea Clinton · 80 pages
"A nonfiction picture book compilation of the stories of 13 American women who persisted in overcoming obstacles and changing the world"--Provided by publisher. "Chelsea Clinton introduces tiny feminists, mini activists and little kids who are ready to take on the world to thirteen inspirational women who never took no for an answer, and who always, inevitably and without fail, persisted. Through
Six Dots: A Story of Young Louis Braille
Jennifer Fisher Bryant · 40 pages
Louis Braille was just five years old when he lost his sight. He was a clever boy, determined to live like everyone else, and what he wanted more than anything was to be able to read. Even at the school for the blind in Paris, there were no books for him. And so he invented his own alphabet—a whole new system for writing that could be read by touch. A system so ingenious that it is still