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The Composer Is Dead
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Lemony Snicket, Nathaniel Stookey (Composer), Carson Ellis (Illustrator)
A murder has been committed in the symphony hall, and the culprit is lurking in the orchestra. A "Peter and the Wolf" for the 21st century, this book comes with a CD featuring narration by Lemony Snicket and original music performed by the San Francisco Symphony. Full color.
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Remarkable Farkle McBride
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John Lithgow, C F Payne (Illustrator)
In the first children's book by the actor John Lithgow, poor Farkle McBride wants to make music, but he goes from one instrument to another without finding any of them very exciting. Farkle is driving his parents crazy, but they live in hope that he'll find a musical instrument he'll love. Soon something remarkable happens to Farkle, and he ...
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Lentil
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Robert McCloskey
A boy named Lentil saves the day when a grumpy old man tries to ruin a small town's big celebration. Illustrated with b&w drawings.
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Dave at Night
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Gail Carson Levine
During the 1920s, Dave is 11 years old. After his father dies, he must cope with being abandoned by his terrible stepmother, who doesn't feel like taking care of him anymore. She leaves him at the Hebrew Home for Boys--a dark, chilling place where the superintendent thinks that the boys in the home are worthless human beings. Dave's only solace is ...
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The Mozart Question
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Michael Morpurgo, Michael Foreman (Illustrator)
A boy's passion for music unlocks a painful secret -- and draws his family together -- in a multilayered tale by an outstanding author-illustrator pair. Like any young boy, Paolo becomes obsessed with what he can't have -- in his case, a violin. Hidden away in his parents' room, it beckons the boy to release the music inside it. The music leads ...
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Mouse Called Wolf
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Dick King-Smith
A mouse named Wolfgang Amadeus Mouse (Wolf for short) loves music. His siblings seem to enjoy the piano only as a place for holding races, but Wolf loves to hear Mrs. Honeybee, the lady who owns the house where he and his family live, use it to play beautiful music. Then one day, moved by Mrs. Honeybee's playing, Wolf opens his mouth and finds ...
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The Peter Yarrow Songbook: Sleepytime Songs
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Peter Yarrow, Terry Widener (Illustrator)
Peter Yarrow's gentle voice will lull children to sweet dreams with these 12 beautiful and timeless sleepy time songs. It's the perfect goodnight combination, with a book of lyrics to read aloud before little heads hit the pillow and a CD providing soft, beautiful accompaniment to quiet the most animated child. Terry Widener's lovely art captures ...
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Beethoven Lives Upstairs
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B Nichol
In September 1822, 10-year-old Christoph writes a letter to his uncle: "A madman has moved into our house". The "madman" is none other than Ludwig van Beethoven. In a unique approach that combines biography, fiction, and music, this book weaves true incidents in the composer's life into a fictional correspondence between a young boy and his uncle. ...
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Lemonade Mouth
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Mark Peter Hughes
Told in the voice of each member of the legendary rock band Lemonade Mouth, this anthology is the definitive history of how five outcasts in Opoquonsett High School's freshman class found each other, found the music, and went on to change rock and roll and high school forever.
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Jazz
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Walter Dean Myers, Christopher Myers (Illustrator)
From bebop to New Orleans, from ragtime to boogie--and every style in between--this collection of energetic poems, accompanied by bright and exhilarating paintings, celebrates different styles of the American art form, jazz. Full color.
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Ty's One-Man Band
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Mildred Pitts Walter
Andro, a peg-legged man, enchants young Ty with his music produced with a collection of everyday objects.
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Favorite Folk Songs: The Peter Yarrow Songbook
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Peter Yarrow, Terry Widener (Illustrator)
Lively, warm and friendly, this illustrated collection - plus a CD with Peter Yarrow, his daughter Bethany and cellist Rufus Cappadocia - will bring families together to read and to sing. Peter makes every tune sound fresh and irresistible and Terry Widener's appealing pictures capture the spirit of each song, from the wild waves and rocking boat ...
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Cello of Mr. O
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Jane Cutler, Greg Couch (Illustrator)
A young girl and her community live in fear as the war continues to cause pain and suffering all around them. The only comfort they experience is when the relief truck brings them water and food, until one day when it is bombed and destroyed, leaving everyone stranded. But then, a quiet and shy musician known as Mr. O turns the most awful of ...
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Unsigned Hype
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Booker T Mattison
Tory Tyson may only be in high school, but he knows what he wants out of life - a successful music career. And he's not going to learn about all that at school. So when school lets out next month he's not going back. He's finally ready to stop spinning old records at parties and start laying down his own beats - and the Unsigned Hype music contest ...
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Queen's Soprano
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Carol Dines
Seventeen-year-old Angelica Voglia loves to sing. But she lives in seventeenth-century Rome, and the pope has forbidden women to sing in public. To make matters worse, her controlling mother is determined to marry her off to a wealthy nobleman, even though Angelica is in love with a poor French artist. Angelica's only hope to sing before an ...
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Audrey, Wait!
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Robin Benway
When her ex writes a break-up song about her that rockets up the charts, Audrey is suddenly famous--she can't go out without being mobbed by fans and paparazzi. Take a wild ride with Audrey as she makes headlines, confronts her ex on MTV, and shows the world who she really is.Sleuth RazorBill
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Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue
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Anna Harwell Celenza, Joann E Kitchel (Illustrator)
It's 1924, and with just a few weeks' notice, George Gershwin has been asked to compose a new concerto that exemplifies American music. In his search for a new melody, Gershwin realizes that American music is much like its people--a great melting pot of sounds, rhythms, and harmonies. JoAnn Kitchel's illustrations capture the 1920s in all their ...
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Bats on Parade
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Kathi Appelt
On a midsummer's night the Marching Bat Band makes a rare appearance, its members grouped in formations that demonstrate multiplication from two times two up to ten times ten.
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Mozart Season
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Virginia Euwer Wolff
Seventh-grader Allegra Leah Shapiro is selected as a finalist in a competition for young musicians. Allegra, a violinist, is probably the youngest person to make it to the finals. As she spends her summer vacation practicing the Mozart concerto she plans to perform in the competition, Allegra struggles to discover her interpretation of the music ...
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Farmer in the Dell
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Pam Adams (Illustrator)
Through the use of die-cutting, this large-format book tells the story of the nursery rhyme "The Farmer in the Dell". The holes are designed to draw the reader on through the book.
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Musical Life of Gustav Mole
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Kathryn Meyrick (Illustrator)
Gustav is a mole lucky enough to be born into a musical family. He shares his musical experience, individual instruments, and performing groups ranging from "beans in a jar", to the orchestra, jazz bands, and the opera.
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Hip Cat
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Jonathan London
A hip saxophone-playing cat goes to the big city to seek fame and fortune.
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Cool Daddy Rat
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Kristyn Crow, Mike Lester (Illustrator)
Every night, Cool Daddy Rat takes his bass case, and goes out to play and scat around the city. But one night he hears something strange: "Peeky squeaky who dat?" Itas his son, Ace, hiding in the bass case! After a reassuring call to Mama, the pair go all over the city together, filling the streets with his sweet beat. And when Ace canat contain ...
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The Jazz of Our Street
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Fatima Shaik, E B Lewis (Foreword by)
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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When Uncle Took the Fiddle
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Libba Moore Gray, Libba Moore Gray, Lloyd Bloom (Illustrator)
Even though everyone is really tired and sleepy, something happens when Uncle starts playing the fiddle--everyone wants to dance and have fun! With color illustrations throughout.
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