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1) Jazz
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English
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Illustrations and rhyming text celebrate the roots of jazz music.
3) The jazz kid
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English
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Playing the coronet is the first thing that twelve-year-old Paulie Horvath has taken seriously, but his obsession with becoming a jazz musician leads him into conflict with his parents and into the tough underworld of Chicago in the 1920s.
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English
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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 Steer, Mules Davis, and Ella Finchgerald. Includes glossary, notes on the characters and songs, and jazz timeline.
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Mirror) volume 4
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English
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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.
7) Bat and Rat
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English
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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.
10) Jazz for lunch!
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
After lunch at a very crowded jazz cafe, a boy and his Auntie Nina are inspired to create a feast of their own with such treats as Thelonious Monk Fish and Nat King Cole Slaw.
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Series
Magic tree house. Merlin missions volume 14
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English
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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.".
13) Jazzmatazz!
Author
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
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.
14) Cool Daddy Rat
Author
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
A young rat hides in his father's bass case and tags along as he plays and scats around the big city.
17) Journey to you
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Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
Description
"Take a journey from the streets of New York City to the cosmic realms to discover the answers to life's most important questions"--
18) Hurricane song
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Pub. Date
2008.
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English
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Twelve-year-old 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.
19) Jazz baby
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Pub. Date
2002.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
A group of children move and play, hum and sleep to a jazz beat.
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
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 Kit's World" essay about the popularity of jazz and swing music during the Depression.
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