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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Description
In 1904, twelve-year-old Orphelia follows her dream by running away from home to join an all-black minstrel show headed for the Saint Louis World's Fair, and learns about her family's troubled past in the process.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Description
Life is becoming dangerous for the Jews of Krakow in 1936 with incidents of violence and persecution increasing day by day. Twelve-year-old Anna begs her father to leave Poland, but he is reluctant to give up his position as an acclaimed clarinetist in the Krakow Philharmonic Orchestra. After barely escaping from an attack by a group of violent thugs, it becomes clear that the family must leave. Anna's father auditions for the famous Bronislaw Huberman,...
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Language
English
Description
Fifth period is hands down the best time of day in Connor U. Eubanks Middle School, because that's when Mr. Lewis teaches Jazz Lab. So his students are devastated when their beloved teacher quits abruptly. Once they make a connection between budget cuts and Mr. Lewis's disappearance, they hatch a plan: stop the cuts, save their class. Soon, they become an unlikely band of crusaders, and their quest quickly snowballs into something much bigger--a movement...
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Language
English
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"When Dom's class is taken to hear a concert at Carnegie Hall, she expects to be bored out of her mind. But then she sees the boy in the front row, playing violin like his life depends on it--and she is transfixed. Posing as an NYU student, Dom sneaks back to New York City to track down Ben Tristan, a magnetic genius who whisks her out of her limited life in New Jersey and into a fantasy world of jazz clubs and opera, infatuation and possibility....
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
In 1980 life is hard on the Tuscarora Reservation in upstate New York, and most of the teenagers feel like they are going nowhere: Carson Mastick dreams of forming a rock band, and Maggi Bokoni longs to create her own conceptual artwork instead of the traditional beadwork that her family sells to tourists--but tensions are rising between the reservation and the surrounding communities, and somehow in the confusion of politics and growing up Carson...
46) Open secrets
Author
Series
Publisher
James Lorimer & Company Ltd., Publishers
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"The #MeToo movement has revealed the prevalence of sexual assault in society, especially as committed by powerful men. But it is an issue that also affects the lives of teen girls. This book tells the story of seventeen year-old Ana Santos, who has ambitions to make it big in music and signs a contract with the owner of a music caf©♭ without knowing there are sexual strings attached. It looks at the darker side of the music industry, including...
47) If I stay
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Description
While in a coma following an automobile accident that killed her parents and younger brother, seventeen-year-old Mia, a gifted cellist, weights whether to live with her grief or join her family in death.
Author
Publisher
Viking Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"After their high school graduation, former best friends Cass and Syd are gearing up for their futures. Cass has planned to go to college to become an engineer, while Syd--despite the fact that her family thinks she's messed up her whole life--has lined up a sound internship at a historic music venue. But Cass is keeping secrets. Though his dad has forbidden it, Cass has been playing music, taking trips to San Francisco BART stations to play and make...
51) Punk Farm
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
At the end of the day, while Farmer Joe gets ready for bed, his animals tune their instruments to perform in a big concert as a rock band called Punk Farm.
Author
Series
Jake the fake volume 1
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Having faked his way into the Music and Art Academy, a performing arts school for gifted students where his talented older sister rules, sixth-grader Jake, a jokester who can barely play an instrument, will have to think of something quick before the lastlaugh is on him.
56) Brundibar
Author
Publisher
Michael di Capua Books / Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
2002.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
An illustrated retelling of the Czech opera in which a brother and sister find a way to outwit the bullying, bellowing, hurdy-gurdy grinder named Brundibar who will not let them earn money by singing in the town square.
Author
Publisher
Disney Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
This picture book pairs Newbery Winner Matt de la Pena and Pixar artist Ana Ramirez with the highly anticipated Pixar Studios film, Coco. Featuring a beautiful original story based on the characters of the film, as well as vibrant stylized artwork.
60) School spirit
Author
Series
Suddenly supernatural volume 1
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Like her mother, a professional medium, Kat has been able to see dead people since turning thirteen, and although they would prefer to be normal, Kat and her best friend come to terms with their own talents while helping free the spirit of a girl trapped at their middle school.