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1) Frida
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Illustrations and simple text help chronicle the life of artist Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo, discussing how she learned to paint, how painting saved her life, and why her paintings are so unique.
2) Dizzy
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Simple, illustrated introduction to the life of jazz musician, Dizzy Gillespie.
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Language
English
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Peek behind the curtain of the glorious musicality of birds in Bird Rehearsal, a picture book about a raucous romp through the neighborhood, told entirely in birdsong from the award-winning author/illustrator team Jonah Winter and Stacy Innerst.
When the night is done,
and the sky begins to lighten,
the bird rehearsal begins.
It's not meant for us, but here we are,
every day, listening . . . Jonah Winter is the award-winning author of more...
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Language
English
Description
In this unusual and inventive picture book that riffs on the language and rhythms of old New Orleans, noted picture book biographer Jonah Winter (Dizzy, Frida, You Never Heard of Sandy Koufax?) turns his focus to one of America's early jazz heroes in this perfectly pitched book about Jelly Roll Morton.
Gorgeously illustrated by fine artist Keith Mallett, a newcomer to picture books, this biography will transport readers young and old to the musical,...
5) Barack
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Language
English
Description
Acclaimed poet and award-winning children's author Jonah Winter-inspired by a political rally he attended during the historic 2008 presidential campaign, tells the moving story of Barack Obama. Beginning in Africa and Kansas, this enlightening biography describes Obama's life as an ongoing journey, from his birth in Hawaii to his election as president. Obama emerges as someone who, even from an early age, wondered where he belonged and who he might...
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English
Description
Critically acclaimed children's author Jonah Winter reimagines a true story from 1987. The small Long Island town of Islip has a big problem-3,168 tons of garbage and no place to put it! So workers pile the smelly refuse on a large barge, hire a tug boat, and send the stuff south to find a final resting place. But as the barge travels from North Carolina to New Orleans and from Mexico to Belize-nobody wants Islip's rotting mountain of garbage.