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Becoming Billie Holiday
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Carole Boston Weatherford |
Jazz vocalist Billie Holiday looks back on her early years in this fictional memoir written in verse. |
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Dial Leroi Rupert, DJ
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Jamie Gilson |
Desperate to pay back 50 dollars they owe, three 12-year-olds form a jazz combo and then receive some surprising assistance from a local disc jockey. |
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Acoustic Rooster and his barnyard band
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Tim Bowers,Kwame Alexander |
Acoustic Rooster forms a jazz band with Duck Ellington, Bee Holliday, and Pepe Ernesto Cruz to compete in the annual Barnyard Talent Show against such greats as Thelonius Steer, Mules Davis, and Ella… |
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Jessica the Jazz Fairy
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Daisy Meadows |
The Dance Fairies' magic ribbons are missing! Without them, all kinds of dances are getting off on the wrong foot. Everyone is miserable, except for Jack Frost and his goblins. They have the ribbons … |
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Bat and Rat
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Patrick Jennings |
One night at the Hotel Midnight, the lyrics written and sung by jazz musician Rat are those inspired by his friendship with Bat, who plays the piano and writes the tunes. |
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The Django
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Levi Pinfold |
A young boy named Jean has an imaginary friend, Django, who keeps getting him in trouble and eventually is "sent away," but whenever Jean plays the banjo he continues to feel close to Django. Inspire… |
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Jazzmatazz!
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Stephanie Calmenson |
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. |
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The jazzman's trumpet
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Elizabeth Cody Kimmel |
Before Kit can write a news story about an upcoming sold-out jazz concert, sinister pranks threaten to cancel the show and Kit is falsely accused of stealing a valuable trumpet. Includes an "Inside K… |
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The jazz of our street
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Fatima Shaik |
Two siblings dash from their porch one morning to join the second-line parade stamping, swaying, and dancing behind the jazz band marching through their New Orleans neighborhood. |
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The Penguin Quartet
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Peter Arrhenius |
Tired of watching over their soon-to-be-hatched eggs, four father penguins form a jazz band and travel to New York to play at all the coolest clubs. |
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The Jazz Man
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Mary Hays Weik |
Nine-year-old Zeke, who lives in Harlem, listens to the wonderful music coming from the jazz musician's piano across the court and escapes for a while from the harsh realities that worry him. |
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Hurricane Song
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Paul Volponi |
High school sophomore Miles Shaw goes to live with his father, a jazz musician, in New Orleans, and together they survive the horrors of Hurricane Katrina in the Superdome, learning about each other … |
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Jazz baby
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Carole Boston Weatherford,Carole Boston Weatherford,Laura Freeman |
A group of toddlers move and play, hum and sleep to a jazz beat. |
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