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Magic tree house. Merlin missions volume 14
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Jack and Annie must travel back in time to New Orleans in 1915 to help a teenaged Louis Armstrong fulfill his destiny and become the "King of Jazz."
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Series
Language
English
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Hannah Swensen has her hands full preparing a generous supply of cinnamon rolls for the weekend Jazz Festival concert by the Cinnamon Roll Six jazz band, but before the festival can begin the band's tour bus overturns, keyboard player Buddy Neiman is murdered, and soon Hannah finds herself uncovering a quantity of suspicious facts and a few local suspects.
3) A cold heart
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Series
Alex Delaware novels volume 17
Language
English
Description
BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Jonathan Kellerman's Guilt.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
LAPD homicide detective Milo Sturgis summons his friend psychologist-sleuth Alex Delaware to a trendy gallery where a promising young artist has been brutally garroted on the night of her first major showing. The details of the murder scene immediately suggest to Alex not an impulsive crime of passion but...
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
LAPD homicide detective Milo Sturgis summons his friend psychologist-sleuth Alex Delaware to a trendy gallery where a promising young artist has been brutally garroted on the night of her first major showing. The details of the murder scene immediately suggest to Alex not an impulsive crime of passion but...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Appears on list
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.
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Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
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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 Monkey, Mules Davis, and Ella Finchgerald. Includes glossary, notes on the characters and songs, and jazz timeline.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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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.
7) Passion play
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
The last thing washed up jazz musician, Nate Pool, wanted to do was betray sinister gangster, Happy Shannon. But it may be the last thing he does unless he can deliver Lily, a beautiful and mysterious carnival sideshow attraction.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
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 and growing closer through their painful experiences.
Author
Series
Mirror (Disney Hyperion) volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1920s New Orleans, eighteen-year-old Zora, banished after an incident in Harlem, struggles with her overbearing family, magical powers, love of jazz, and forbidden romance with a white man.
10) New Orleans!
Author
Series
Recipe for adventure volume 4
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Alfie and Emilia are transported by their great-aunt's latest magical secret ingredient to New Orleans, where they help the members of a jazz band and try to locate a lost cookbook.
11) Notes from a pro
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
When one of the other members of Benton Bluff Junior High band shows up with a shiny new trombone, Kori Neal's school-loaner suddenly seems beat-up and old so she comes up with an idea to organize a fund-raiser to buy new instruments--until advice from a famous local jazz musician gives her a clearer perspective on the issue.
12) In The Blood
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Language
English
Description
The trouble with K.C. Brown's dream of playing alto sax for a local jazz band is that she's a nineteen-year-old white girl, the band members are middle-aged black men, the year is 1948, and they all live in a racially divided town in Iowa.
To succeed, she and the band must overcome resistance from both sides of the color barrier, and accept that ambition often comes with loss.
In the Blood explores the cultural, sexual, generational, and economic...
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Language
English
Description
In a rapidly gentrifying Queens NYC, Maliki -- a young Jazz musician -- sets out on a journey to continue his father's legacy and reopen his famous Jazz club.
Along the way he meets Afeni, a passionate, yet homesick actress from Jamaica.
When Maliki secretly accepts an ill-advised donation from a local philanthropist, he finds himself in a web of corruption and deceit. As he attempts to navigate his way out, Afeni toils with a secret of...
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Series
Language
English
Description
Uniform ironed? Check.
Military ID? Check.
Annoying co-worker? Dang it.
Macie has ditched her retail job and moved across the country for a career in the Royal Australian Air Force. Working, eating and sleeping alongside the most irritating person from her training course prompts Macie to seek out ways to widen her circle of friends. Hopefully, to include people who don't speak in acronyms.
The jazz music at a local swing dance class captures her...
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Publisher
Lerner Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2017
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
The audience was completely silent the first time Billie Holiday performed a song called "Strange Fruit." In the 1930s, Billie was known as a performer of jazz and blues music, but this song wasn't either of those things. It was a song about injustice, and it would change her life forever.
Discover how two outsiders—Billie Holiday, a young black woman raised in poverty, and Abel Meeropol, the son of Jewish immigrants—combined their
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Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2009], c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Rachel and Kirsty must help Jessica, the jazz fairy, find her magic ribbon so that everyone can enjoy the jazz band and dancing at a party given by a Broadway musical producer.
18) Soul
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Publisher
Spotlight, a division of ABDO
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Middle-school band teacher Joe's true passion is jazz, but when he travels to another realm to help someone find their passion, he soon discovers what it means to have a soul.
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