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Music and Musicians
Many kids love to sing, write songs, play music, and even create their own homemade instruments. And some children are curious about the lives of famous singers, songwriters, and musicians. We've gathered up a great collection of books, activities, apps, and websites for learning all about music and musicians.
Try pairing fiction with nonfiction books and exploring different genres (like poetry and biographies) and formats (like graphic novels and audio books). You'll be creating your own "text sets" — collections of texts focused on a specific topic, such as music and musicians. Reading widely in this way helps children build background knowledge, vocabulary, and comprehension skills.
Age Level: 3-6 years old
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A Neighborhood Walk, a Musical Journey
By: Pilar Winter Hill
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Fiction
"Honk-honk, tweet-tweet, patter-patter!" This sweet, fun read-aloud drums up nostalgia for all...
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A Tisket, a Tasket
By: Ella Fitzgerald
Age Level: 3-6 years old
The song made famous by jazz great Ella Fitzgerald in the 1930s has been re-created, re-...
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Before John Was a Jazz Giant: A Song of John Coltrane
By: Carole Boston Weatherford
Age Level: 3-6 years old
John's music began when he listened to the music in his childhood. Semi-abstract...
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Charlie Parker Played Be Bop
By: Chris Raschka
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Inspired by jazz great Charlie Parker, rhythm and repetition are woven together to create a...
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Dooby Dooby Moo
By: Doreen Cronin
Age Level: 3-6 years old
When Duck reads about an upcoming talent show at the county fair, he organizes the animals on...
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Ear Worm!
By: Jo Knowles
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Fiction
One summer day, as Little Worm heads out to play, he discovers he has a song stuck in his head...
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Esquivel! Space-Age Sound Artist
By: Susan Wood
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Meet Juan García Esquivel whose contributions to music can still be heard. From his early days...
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Every Little Thing
By: Bob Marley, Cedella Marley
Age Level: 3-6 years old
In this illustrated version of Bob Marley's song, a young boy, with the encouragement of three...
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Gus and Me: The Story of My Granddad and My First Guitar
By: Keith Richards
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Long before there was a band, there was a boy: a young Keith Richards, who was introduced to the...
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Hip Cat
By: Jonathan London
Age Level: 3-6 years old
A cool cat named Oobie-Do moves to San Francisco, plays his saxophone and works as a short order...
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I Got the Rhythm
By: Connie Scholfield-Morrison
Age Level: 3-6 years old
On a sunny day, a child and her mother go for a walk in the park. The rhythm the girl hears in...
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Let It Shine: Three Favorite Spirituals
By: Ashley Bryan
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Three well known spirituals, "This Little Light of Mine," "When the Saints Go Marching In," and...
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Little Pig Joins the Band
By: David Hyde Costello
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Little Pig has trouble keeping up with his older--and bigger--brothers and sisters. When they...
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Manuelo, the Playing Mantis
By: Don Freeman
Age Level: 3-6 years old
A praying mantis who longs to make music gets help from a spider name Debby Webster.
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Music, Music for Everyone
By: Vera Williams
Age Level: 3-6 years old
When Rosa's grandmother becomes sick, Rosa comes up with an idea that not only makes...
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Olivia Forms a Band
By: Ian Falconer
Age Level: 3-6 years old
When Olivia learns that there will be no band at the evening's fireworks display, she decides to...
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Peter and the Wolf
By: Chris Raschka, Sergei Prokofiev
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Retells the orchestral fairy tale in which a boy ignores his grandfather's warnings and captures...
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Piano Starts Here: The Young Art Tatum
By: Robert Andrew Parker
Age Level: 3-6 years old
The story of young Art Tatum, who became one of the all-time greats of jazz.
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Punk Farm
By: Jarrett J. Krosoczka
Age Level: 3-6 years old
At the end of the day, while Farmer Joe gets ready for bed, his animals tune their instruments...
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Sergei Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf
By: Sergei Prokofiev
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Despite Grandfather's warning about wolves in the forest, Peter and his animal friends capture...
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Shake, Rattle & Turn That Noise Down!
By: Mark Alan Stamaty
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Recounts the author's childhood determination to emulate Elvis Presley after being inspired by...
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The Orchestra Pit
By: Johanna Wright
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Even though the green-spotted snake wanders into the wrong pit – an orchestra pit – he takes the...
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This Jazz Man
By: Karen Ehrhardt
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Nonfiction
Presents an introduction to jazz music and nine well-known jazz musicians, set to the rhythm of...
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This Land is Your Land
By: Woodie Guthrie
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Guthrie's folk song begins a journey across the United States. Highly detailed, richly colored...
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Tito Puente, Mambo King
By: Monica Brown
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Tito Puente was born to be a musician. He grew up to become the Mamba King to whose music people...
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When Marian Sang: The True Recital of Marian Anderson
By: Pam Muñoz Ryan
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Marian Anderson was an extraordinary contralto whose talent was celebrated in Europe long before...
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Woody Guthrie: Poet of the People
By: Bonnie Christensen
Age Level: 3-6 years old
An introductory biography of famous folk singer Woody Guthrie presented as a picture book with a...
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Age Level: 6-9 years old
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A Band of Angels
By: Deborah Hopkinson
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Ella Sheppard was one of the original Jubilee Singers from what is now known as Fisk University...
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A Good Night for Ghosts
By: Mary Pope Osborne
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Jack and Annie go to New Orleans on All Saint's Day in 1915 to find a young musician named Louis...
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A Likkle Miss Lou: How Jamaican Poet Louise Bennett Coverley Found Her Voice
By: Nadia Hohn
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Nonfiction
Louise Bennett Coverley, better known as Miss Lou, was a Jamaican poet and entertainer who used...
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Acoustic Rooster and His Barnyard Band
By: Kwame Alexander
Age Level: 6-9 years old
When a jazz-loving rooster sets his sights on winning a barnyard talent show, he realizes he can...
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Ada's Violin: The Story of the Recycled Orchestra of Paraguay
By: Susan Hood
Age Level: 6-9 years old
A town built on a landfill. A community in need of hope. A girl with a dream. A man with a...
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Banjo Granny
By: Sarah Martin Busse, Jacqueline Martin
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
Owen's singing, banjo-playing Granny goes out "to cross one river, one mountain, and a desert"...
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Boys Dancing: From School Gym to Theater Stage
By: George Ancona
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Nonfiction
Elementary school-age boys start at the beginning of the school year to study with Pamela at the...
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Bremen Town Musician
By: Jacob Grimm
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
This is the classic tale of four beleaguered animals—a donkey who can no longer work, a hound...
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Can You Hear It?
By: William Lach
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Introduces children to music through works of art. Pictures set the scene for the music, and...
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Celia Cruz: Queen of Salsa
By: Veronica Chambers
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Celia Cruz began singing on the streets of Havana as a child. She grew up to become a legendary...
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Change Sings: A Children's Anthem
By: Amanda Gorman
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Poetry
As a young girl leads a cast of characters on a musical journey, they learn that they have the...
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Dark Was the Night: Blind Willie Johnson's Journey to the Stars
By: Gary Golio
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Nonfiction
The story of Blind Willie Johnson — the legendary Texas musician whose song "Dark Was the Night...
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Dizzy
By: Jonah Winter
Age Level: 6-9 years old
John Birks Gillespie was an angry child from an abusive home. He was able to overcome huge...
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Django: World's Greatest Jazz Guitarist
By: Bonnie Christensen
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Born into a poor Roma family, Django Reinhardt's musical talent takes him to perform on European...
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Drum Dream Girl: One Girl's Courage Changed Music
By: Margarita Engle
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Follows a girl in the 1920s as she strives to become a drummer, despite being continually...
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Duke Ellington's Nutcracker Suite
By: Anna Harwell Celenza
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Duke Ellington's collaboration with a classically trained colleague resulting in unique...
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Elizabeth's Song
By: Michael Wenberg
Age Level: 6-9 years old
A fictionalized account of how an 11-year-old girl, Elizabeth "Libba" Cotten, saved to buy her...
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Ella Fitzgerald: The Tale of a Vocal Virtuosa
By: Andrea Pinkney
Age Level: 6-9 years old
From her early days in Harlem to becoming the First Lady of Jazz, the story of Ella Fitzgerald...
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Ellington Was Not a Street
By: Kadir Nelson, Ntozake Shange
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Handsome illustrations of Shange's evocative poem, "Mood Indigo," pay homage to the many African...
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Elvis: The Story of the Rock and Roll King
By: Bonnie Christensen
Age Level: 6-9 years old
A picture-book biography of a poor kid from Tupelo, Mississippi, who became an American musical...
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Fab Four Friends
By: Susanna Reich
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Nonfiction
Through paintings and text, this book traces the history and rise in popularity of the Beatles...
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Finding the Music/En pos de la musica
By: Jennifer Torres
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Reyna accidentally breaks her abuelo's vihuela and tries to fix it before her family finds out....
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Flowers for Sarajevo
By: John McCutcheon
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Drasko is Milo's son who carries on his father's flower business even after things in Sarajevo...
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For the Love of Music: The Remarkable Story of Maria Anna Mozart
By: Elizabeth Rusch, Steve Johnson
Age Level: 6-9 years old
The life of Wolfgang's older sister, Maria Anna, follows the form of a piano sonata which...
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Freedom in Congo Square
By: Carole Boston Weatherford
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Join the rhythmic countdown to Sunday afternoon, the one time when enslaved Africans in 19th...
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Hana Hashimoto, Sixth Violin
By: Chieri Uegaki
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Inspired by memories of the time she spent in Japan with her grandfather, a professional...
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Harlem
By: Walter Dean Myers
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Nonfiction
Experienced readers will enjoy this stunning and sophisticated visit to Harlem in word and image...
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Harlem Renaissance Party
By: Faith Ringgold
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Lonnie travels back in time to meet many of the artists, writers, and musicians of the Harlem...
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Harlem's Little Blackbird: The Story of Florence Mills
By: Renee Watson
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Bold, bright illustrations and a cheerful text that includes song lyrics introduce the life of an...
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How Jelly Roll Morton Invented Jazz
By: Jonah Winter
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Jelly Roll Morton became – to his grandmother's horror – a musician in New Orleans, developing...
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I Know a Shy Fellow Who Swallowed a Cello
By: Barbara Garriel
Age Level: 6-9 years old
An adaptation of the folk rhyme "There Was an Old Woman Who Swallowed a Fly," featuring musical...
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John Coltrane's Giant Steps
By: Chris Raschka
Age Level: 6-9 years old
John Coltrane's musical composition is performed by a box, a snowflake, some raindrops, and a...
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Ketzel, the Cat Who Composed
By: Leslea Newman
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Moshe Cotel was a composer who lived in a noisy building on a noisy street in a noisy city. But...
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Leontyne Price: Voice of a Century
By: Carole Boston Weatherford
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Born in the Mississippi Delta in 1927, the always musically gifted Mary Violet Leontyne Price...
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Libba: The Magnificent Musical Life of Elizabeth Cotton
By: Laura Veirs
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Elizabeth "Libba" Cotton heard music all around her growing up in North Carolina. She became a...
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Listen to the Birds: An Introduction to Classical Music
By: Ana Gerhard
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Provides an introduction to classical music, describing how birds have inspired composers...
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Little Melba and Her Big Trombone
By: Katheryn Russell-Brown
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Nonfiction
Melba Doretta Liston loved the sounds of music from as far back as she could remember....
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Little Rat Makes Music
By: Monica Bang-Campbell
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
Little Rat wants to be musical and play an instrument just as do the other members of her family...
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M Is for Music
By: Kathleen Krull
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Nonfiction
The alphabet is used as a device to introduce the vocabulary for a range of musical styles as...
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Mahalia Jackson: Walking with Kings and Queens
By: Nina Nolan
Age Level: 6-9 years old
This brief, broad introduction to gospel great, Mahalia Jackson, is sure to inform as well as...
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Max Found Two Sticks
By: Brian Pinkney
Age Level: 6-9 years old
It was a day when Max didn't feel like talking to anyone. He just sat on his front steps and...
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Moses Goes to a Concert
By: Isaac Millman
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Moses and his schoolmates, all deaf, attend a concert where the orchestra's percussionist is...
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Mr. Putter and Tabby Toot the Horn
By: Cynthia Rylant
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Mr. Putter's neighbor, Mrs. Teaberry, decides that they should join a band, but finding the...
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Music for Mr. Moon
By: Erin Stead
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
Harriet just wants to play her cello alone. But when she accidentally knocks the lonely moon...
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My Name Is Celia/Me llamo Celia
By: Monica Brown
Age Level: 6-9 years old
The beautiful artwork of this award-winning picture book about salsa queen Celia Cruz practically...
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Odetta: The Queen of Folk
By: Stephen Alcorn
Age Level: 6-9 years old
The life and music of Odetta who became an influential folksinger and civil rights activist is...
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Penny and Her Song
By: Kevin Henkes
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Henkes' first easy reader introduces Penny and her mouse family in two appealing chapters. Penny...
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Piano Starts Here: The Young Art Tatum
By: Robert Andrew Parker
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Nonfiction
Art Tatum came from modest beginnings and was nearly blind, but his passion for the piano and...
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Play, Mozart, Play!
By: Peter Sís
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was not only a famous composer and a musical genius; his father turned...
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Roly-Polies
By: Mónica Carretero
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
Beneath a large cabaret theater lived a huge family of roly-polies. The cabaret was open at...
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Simple Gifts
By: Chris Raschka
Age Level: 6-9 years old
A familiar traditional Shaker hymn has been interpreted in bold, semi-abstract, jewel-toned...
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Skit-Scat Raggedy Cat: Ella Fitzgerald
By: Eileen L. Ordover
Age Level: 6-9 years old
From a poor girl who had "a dancing beat in her feet ever since she was a bitty girl"...
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Sweet Music in Harlem
By: Debbie Taylor
Age Level: 6-9 years old
CJ's uncle, a well known jazz musician, has lost his signature hat and sends the boy out to...
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Swing Sisters: The Story of the International Sweethearts of Rhythm
By: Karen Deans
Age Level: 6-9 years old
The story of a group of African American orphans who played in their school's all-girl swing...
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Teach Your Buffalo to Play Drums
By: Audrey Vernick
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Encourages the reader, through practical advice, to support his or her buffalo's desire to play...
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The Beatles Were Fab (and They Were Funny)
By: Kathleen Krull
Age Level: 6-9 years old
A group of young men from Liverpool changed the world of music and they enjoyed a good laugh —...
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The Cardboard Piano
By: Lynne Rae Perkins
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Debbie is taking piano lessons and makes a cardboard piano for her friend Tina. But when Tina...
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The Carnival of the Animals
By: Jack Prelutsky
Age Level: 6-9 years old
New poems, many rhyming, describe the animals introduced in Saint-Saens' orchestral music that...
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The Composer Is Dead
By: Lemony Snicket
Age Level: 6-9 years old
An inspector seeks to solve a murder mystery at the symphony by questioning each of the musical...
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The Deaf Musicians
By: Pete Seeger, Paul Dubois Jacobs
Age Level: 6-9 years old
An inspector seeks to solve a murder mystery at the symphony by questioning each of the musical...
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The First Flute
By: David Bouchard, Jan Reibach
Age Level: 6-9 years old
When a name is given to an adult, it is often given based on the life that person has lived. The...
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The Little Piano Girl
By: Ann Ingalls, Maryann Macdonald
Age Level: 6-9 years old
A child prodigy at the piano sprinkles her music with a little jazz. Includes an afterword about...
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The Shoe Bird
By: Barbara M. Joosse
Age Level: 6-9 years old
An absurd but satisfying fantasy based on Eudora Welty's only children's work, is presented in...
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Trombone Shorty
By: Trou "Trombone Shorty" Andrews
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Nonfiction
Troy Andrews grew up in a New Orleans family of musicians so it's not surprising that he, too,...
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Tuba Lessons
By: T.C. Bartlett
Age Level: 6-9 years old
While walking through the woods on his way to his tuba lesson, a boy becomes sidetracked by all...
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When Bob Met Woody: The Story of the Young Bob Dylan
By: Gary Gallo
Age Level: 6-9 years old
This picture-book biography follows a young Bob Zimmerman as he renames himself after his...
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When Grandmama Sings
By: Margaree King Mitchell
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Belle goes with her talented grandmother on a singing tour during a time of racial segregation...
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When Stravinsky Met Nijinsky
By: Lauren Stringer
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Nonfiction
Stravinsky, a composer, and a dancer named Nijnsky each worked alone until they met. Their...
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When the Beat Was Born: DJ Kool Herc and the Creation of Hip Hop
By: Laban Carrick Hill
Age Level: 6-9 years old
From his early childhood in Jamaica, Clive loved all types of music. When he was 13 years old,...
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Yellow Dog Blues
By: Alice Faye Duncan
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
A lyrical road trip through the Mississippi Delta, exploring the landmarks that shaped one of...
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Zin! Zin! Zin! A Violin
By: Lloyd Moss
Age Level: 6-9 years old
When this book begins, the trombone is playing all by itself. But soon a trumpet makes a duet, a...
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Age Level: 9-12 years old
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Audition & Subtraction
By: Amy Fellner Dominy
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Tatum, a 14-year-old clarinetist, competes with new student Michael for a spot in honor band,...
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Blackbird Fly
By: Erin Entrada Kelly
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Bullied at school, eighth-grader Apple, a Filipino American who loves the music of the Beatles,...
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Blues Journey
By: Walter Dean Myers
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Rich paintings in limited colors convey the power of a people and a piece of their history. Done...
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Clayton Byrd Goes Underground
By: Rita Williams-Garcia
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Clayton Byrd adores his grandfather, loves the jazz Cool Papa plays with the other bluesmen in...
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Firebird
By: Misty Copeland
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Nonfiction
Misty Copeland, the African American Ballet Theater soloist, has an encouraging conversation...
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Great American Mousical
By: Emma Walton Hamilton
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Theater mice perform in a space just out of human sight in a venerable old New York theater. Alas!...
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High-Tech DIY Projects with Musical Instruments
By: Maggie Murphy
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Provides information about music, instruments, and sound while offering step-by-step...
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I Heart Band Series
By: Michelle Schusterman
Age Level: 9-12 years old
The books follow French horn player Holly Mead as she navigates middle school friendships and...
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Jazz Day: The Making of a Famous Photograph
By: Roxanne Orgill
Age Level: 9-12 years old
In 1958, photographer Art Kane gathered up a who's who of jazz musicians on a New York City...
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Josephine: The Dazzling Life of Josephine Baker
By: Patricia Hruby Powell
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Josephine Baker's life and struggles of this performer and activist comes to life.
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Julie Andrews' Collection of Poems, Songs, and Lullabies
By: Julie Andrews, Emma Walton Hamilton
Age Level: 9-12 years old
A range of poetic styles, some rooted in the authors' family, are shared in this handsome, easily...
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Learn to Speak Music
By: John Crossingham
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Learn to Speak Music helps young readers learn this universal language of music by revealing...
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Legends, Icons & Rebels: Music That Changed the World
By: Robbie Robertson
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Nonfiction
Part memoir, part tribute, and all great storytelling. Music industry veterans Robbie Robertson...
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Let Your Voice Be Heard: The Life and Times of Pete Seeger
By: Anita Silvey
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Nonfiction
Pete Seeger lived a long life sharing his music and his convictions about equality with...
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Lives of the Musicians: Good Times, Bad Times (and What the Neighbors Thought)
By: Kathleen Krull
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Short, fresh and fun essays present a broad array of musicians and their music - from Bach to...
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Maker Projects for Kids Who Love Music
By: Rebecca Sjonger
Age Level: 9-12 years old
For kids into music, this title cant be beat! From inspiring profiles of key Maker musicians, to...
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Red Bird Sings: The Story of Zitkala-Ša, Native American Author, Musician, and Activist
By: Gina Capaldi, Q.L. Pearce
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Nonfiction
Born in 1876 on the Yankton Sioux reservation in South Dakota, Zitkala-Ša willingly left her...
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Rhythm Ride: A Road Trip Through the Motown Sound
By: Andrea Davis Pinkney
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Listen to the "groove" as readers make their way through the history of Motown, the people who...
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Story of the Orchestra : Listen While You Learn About the Instruments, the Music and the Composers Who Wrote the Music!
By: Robert Levine
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Nonfiction
Describes the orchestra and includes information on composers, instruments, and the conductor....
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The Flute
By: Rachna Gilmore
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Her parents swept away by a catastrophic flood, Chandra finds solace in her mother's magic flute...
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The Music in George's Head: George Gershwin Creates Rhapsody in Blue
By: Suzanne Slade
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Illustrations in blues and grays combine with words to flow across the pages of this handsome...
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The Rising Star of Rusty Nail
By: Lesley M. Blume
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Hansen is a 10-year-old piano prodigy living in Rusty Nail, Minnesota. She's long exhausted the...
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The Secret Life of Ms. Finkleman
By: Ben H. Winters
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Fiction
Spurred by a special project from social studies teacher, seventh grader Bethesda Fielding...
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The Sweetest Sound
By: Sherri Winston
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Fiction
Ten-year-old Cadence Mariah Jolley is surrounded by music. She inherited a beautiful voice from...
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The Voice That Challenged a Nation
By: Russell Freedman
Age Level: 9-12 years old
A Newbery Honor book that accounts the life and musical career of the great African American...
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What Is Rock and Roll?
By: Jim O'Connor
Age Level: 9-12 years old
This entry in the popular "Who Was" series covers the background of rock and roll music that...
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