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10 best books like Jimi: Sounds Like a Rainbow: a Story of the Young Jimi Hendrix (Gary Golio): Skit-Scat Raggedy Cat: Ella Fitzgerald, Seeds of Change: Planting a Path to Peace, Ballet for Martha: Making Appalachian Spring, A Nation's Hope: The Story of Boxing Legend Joe Louis, Pablo Neruda: Poet of the People, For the Love of Music: The Remarkable Story of Maria Anna Mozart, Fifty Cents and a Dream: Young Booker T. Washington, She Loved Baseball: The Effa Manley Story, Dorothea's Eyes: Dorothea Lange Photographs the Truth, Me, Frida

Skit-Scat Raggedy Cat: Ella Fitzgerald
AuthorRoxane Orgill
ISBN0763617334
A swinging bio of young Ella Fitzgerald, who pushed through the toughest of times to become one of America’s most beloved jazz singers.

When Ella Fitzgerald danced the Lindy Hop on the streets of 1930s Yonkers, passersby said good-bye to their loose change. But for a girl who was orphaned...
Seeds of Change: Planting a Path to Peace
AuthorJen Cullerton Johnson
A while back I read a couple picture books about Wangari Maathai, including Planting the Trees of Kenya: The Story of Wangari Maathai and Wangari's Trees of Peace: A True Story from Africa, and I loved them both, and I’m interested in reading her autobiography and her book about the Green Belt Movement,...
Ballet for Martha: Making Appalachian Spring
AuthorJan Greenberg
ISBN1596433388
A picture book about the making of Martha Graham's Appalachian Spring, her most famous dance performance

Martha Graham : trailblazing choreographer

Aaron Copland : distinguished American composer

Isamu Noguchi : artist, sculptor, craftsman

Award-winning...
A Nation's Hope: The Story of Boxing Legend Joe Louis
AuthorMatt de la Pena
ISBN0803731671
On the eve of World War II, African American boxer Joe Louis fought German Max Schmeling in a bout that had more at stake than just the world heavyweight title; for much of America their fight came to represent America's war with Germany. This elegant and powerful picture book biography centers around...
Pablo Neruda: Poet of the People
AuthorMonica Brown
Once there was a little boy named Neftalí who loved wild things wildly and quiet things quietly. From the moment he could talk, he surrounded himself with words. Neftalí discovered the magic between the pages of books. When he was sixteen, he began publishing his poems as Pablo Neruda.

Pablo...
For the Love of Music: The Remarkable Story of Maria Anna Mozart
AuthorElizabeth Rusch
ISBN1582463263
By the time she was 12, she was considered one of the finest pianists in Europe, but today few people know her name. Maria Mozart, like her famous brother Wolfgang, was a musical prodigy. The talented siblings toured Europe, playing before kings and empresses, were showered with gifts and favors, and...
Fifty Cents and a Dream: Young Booker T. Washington
AuthorJabari Asim
ISBN0316086576
Booker dreamed
of making friends with words,
setting free the secrets
that lived in books.

Born into slavery, young Booker T. Washington could only dream of learning to read and write. After emancipation, Booker began a five-hundred-mile journey, mostly on foot, to Hampton...
She Loved Baseball: The Effa Manley Story
AuthorAudrey Vernick
ISBN0061349208
"A wonderful picture book biography. Little girls will be inspired."*

Effa always loved baseball. As a young woman, she would go to Yankee Stadium just to see Babe Ruth’s mighty swing. But she never dreamed she would someday own a baseball team. Or be the first—and only—woman ever inducted...
Dorothea's Eyes: Dorothea Lange Photographs the Truth
AuthorBarb Rosenstock
After a childhood bout of polio left her with a limp, all Dorothea Lange wanted to do was disappear. But this desire not to be seen helped her learn how to blend into the background and observe others acutely. With a passion for the artistic life, and in spite of her family’s disapproval, Dorothea pursued...
Me, Frida
AuthorAmy Novesky
ISBN0810989697
Like a tiny bird in a big city, Frida Kahlo feels lost and lonely when she arrives in San Francisco with her husband, the famous artist Diego Rivera. It is the first time she has left her home in Mexico. And Frida wants to be a painter too.

But as Frida begins to explore San Francisco on her own, she...
You Never Heard of Sandy Koufax?!
AuthorJonah Winter
ISBN0375837388
In this striking picture book biography, an old-timer tells us what made Sandy Koufax such an amazing baseball player. We learn that the beginning of his career with the Brooklyn Dodgers was rocky, that he was shy with his teammates, and experienced discrimination as one of the only Jews in the game....
Henry Aaron's Dream
AuthorMatt Tavares
ISBN0763632244
Matt Tavares hits one out of the park with this powerful tale of a kid from the segregated south who would become baseball’s home-run king.

Before he was Hammerin’ Hank, Henry Aaron was a young boy grow ing up in Mobile, Alabama, with what seemed like a foolhardy dream: to be a big-league baseball...
The Beatles Were Fab (and They Were Funny)
AuthorKathleen Krull
Q: How do you find all this business of having screaming girls following you all over the place?
George: Well, we feel flattered . . .
John: . . . and flattened. When the Beatles burst onto the music scene in the early 1960s, they were just four unknown lads from Liverpool. But soon their off-the-charts...
Words Set Me Free: The Story of Young Frederick Douglass
AuthorLesa Cline-Ransome
ISBN1416959033
The inspirational, true story of how Frederick Douglass found his way to freedom one word at a time.

This picture book biography chronicles the youth of Frederick Douglass, one of the most prominent African American figures in American history. Douglass spent his life advocating for the...
The Extraordinary Mark Twain (According To Susy)
AuthorBarbara Kerley
ISBN0545125081
From the Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor-winning team behind WHAT TO DO ABOUT ALICE?, a humorous and intimate portrait of the most celebrated writer in America, as told by his thirteen-year-old daughter.
"This is a frank biographer and an honest one; she uses no sandpaper on me." - Mark Twain

An...
Blockhead: The Life of Fibonacci
AuthorJoseph D'Agnese
ISBN0805063056
As a young boy in medieval Italy, Leonardo Fibonacci thought about numbers day and night. He was such a daydreamer that people called him a blockhead.

When Leonardo grew up and traveled the world, he was inspired by the numbers used in different countries. Then he realized that many things in...
Mama Africa!: How Miriam Makeba Spread Hope with Her Song
AuthorKathryn Erskine
Miriam Makeba, a Grammy Award–winning South African singer, rose to fame in the hearts of her people at the pinnacle of apartheid―a brutal system of segregation similar to American Jim Crow laws. Mama Africa, as they called her, raised her voice to help combat these injustices at jazz clubs in Johannesburg;...
Muddy: The Story of Blues Legend Muddy Waters
AuthorMichael James Mahin
ISBN1481443496
A picture book celebration of the indomitable Muddy Waters, a blues musician whose fierce and electric sound laid the groundwork for what would become rock and roll.

Muddy Waters was never good at doing what he was told. When Grandma Della said the blues wouldn’t put food on the table, Muddy...
Hello, I'm Johnny Cash
AuthorG. Neri
ISBN0763662453
A stirring look at the early life of Johnny Cash, from his harsh but music-filled childhood to the first flush of stardom.

There’s never been anyone like music legend Johnny Cash. His deep voice is instantly recognizable, and his heartfelt songs resonate with listeners of all ages and backgrounds....
The Cosmobiography of Sun Ra: The Sound of Joy is Enlightening
AuthorChris Raschka
ISBN0763658065
Caldecott Medalist Chris Raschka shares his love of jazz great Sun Ra, just in time to mark the centennial of the musician’s birth.

Jazz musician Sun Ra (1914–1993) always said that he came from Saturn. Being from another planet, he was naturally intrigued by everything earthly — especially...
When the Beat Was Born: DJ Kool Herc and the Creation of Hip Hop
AuthorLaban Carrick Hill
ISBN1596435402
Before there was hip hop, there was DJ Kool Herc.

On a hot day at the end of summer in 1973 Cindy Campbell threw a back-to-school party at a park in the South Bronx. Her brother, Clive Campbell, spun the records. He had a new way of playing the music to make the breaks—the musical interludes between...
Poet: The Remarkable Story of George Moses Horton
AuthorDon Tate
ISBN1561458252
It seemed rather poignant that I read this book. With the last few months showing that sadly racism has not died I thought it important to introduce my son to dark time in our history...Slavery. I doubt that my son will ever understand white privilege (sadly most white people don't). But I'm happy to say...
Leontyne Price: Voice of a Century
AuthorCarole Boston Weatherford
ISBN0375856064
A stunning picture-book biography of iconic African American opera star Leontyne Price.
 
Born in a small town in Mississippi in 1927, the daughter of a midwife and a sawmill worker, Leontyne Price might have grown up singing the blues. But Leontyne had big dreams—and plenty to be thankful...
Lost Boy: The Story of the Man Who Created Peter Pan
AuthorJane Yolen
ISBN0525478868
People around the world know the story of Peter Pan, the boy who would not grow up, but not many know the story of his creator, J. M. Barrie. Barrie’s young childhood was marked by sorrow, but also held great adventure. His adult life and relationship with the Davies family brought about a second childhood...
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