Lives of the Musicians: Good Times, Bad Times (and What the Neighbors Thought)
10 best books like Lives of the Musicians: Good Times, Bad Times (and What the Neighbors Thought) (Kathleen Krull): Skit-Scat Raggedy Cat: Ella Fitzgerald, How to Take the Grrrr Out of Anger, Solving the Puzzle Under the Sea: Marie Tharp Maps the Ocean Floor, Handel, Who Knew What He Liked, Lady Liberty, Sergei Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf: With a Fully-Orchestrated and Narrated CD, Peter the Great, The Spiritual Lives of the Great Composers, Molly Bannaky, Music Was IT: Young Leonard Bernstein
| Author | Roxane Orgill |
| ISBN | 0763617334 |
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...
How to Take the Grrrr Out of Anger
| Author | Elizabeth Verdick |
| ISBN | 1575421178 |
Anger is a part of life. We can’t avoid it, we shouldn’t stuff it, and we can’t make it go away.
Kids need help learning how to manage their anger. This book speaks directly to them and offers strategies they can start using immediately.
Blending solid information and sound advice...
| Author | Robert Burleigh |
| ISBN | 1481416006 |
Filled with gorgeous illustrations by acclaimed artist Raúl Colón, this illustrated biography shares the story of female scientist, Marie Tharp, a pioneering woman scientist and the first person to ever successfully map the ocean floor.
Marie Tharp was always fascinated by the ocean....
| Author | M.T. Anderson |
| ISBN | 0763625620 |
George Frideric Handel was not your everyday eighteenth-century composer. And in a manner befitting its subject, this witty, rigorously researched, and accessible biography captures Handel's essential spirit — from a child who smuggled a clavichord into the attic to make music against his father's...
| Author | Doreen Rappaport |
| ISBN | 0763625302 |
A powerfully moving, authentic portrait of the Statue of Liberty, told through the eyes of those who created her and illustrated in glorious detail.
"Soon America will be one hundred years old. I share my dream of a birthday gift."
It begins in 1865 as a romantic idea, but ten years later...
| Author | Sergei Prokofiev |
| ISBN | 0375824308 |
Written in 1936, Sergei Prokofiev's symphonic fairy tale for narrator and orchestra has enchanted generations of children. This inviting picture book introduces a new generation of youngsters to the exciting story of the hungry wolf, the ill-fated duck, the fortunate cat, the fearless little bird,...
A very short book about Peter the Great - the Tsar who drug Russia (kicking and screaming) into more modern times. This is a children's book, so it is not very detailed, but the artwork is beautiful and there is enough information to whet the appetite about a historical figure whose name I knew, but not much...
| Author | Patrick Kavanaugh |
| ISBN | 0310208068 |
Handel, Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Brahms, Dvorak, Stravinsky, Messiaen . . . Men of genius as different as their music - but all inspired by deep spiritual convictions. Peter Kavanaugh uncovers the spirituality of twenty of music's timeless giants, revealing legacies of the soul as...
On a cold gray morning in 1683, Molly Walsh sat on a stool tugging at the udder of an obstinate cow. When she spilled the milk, she was brought before the court for stealing. Because she could read, Molly escaped the typicalpunishment of death on the gallows. At the age of seventeen, the English dairymaid...
| Author | Susan Goldman Rubin |
| ISBN | 1580893449 |
This biography of American composer, pianist, and conductor Leonard Bernstein takes readers from his childhood in Boston to his spectacular professional conducting debut with the New York Philharmonic in 1943. Illustrated with archival photographs, mostly from the Leonard Bernstein Collection...
| Author | Jeri Chase Ferris |
| ISBN | 0547390556 |
Golden Kite Award for Nonfiction
Webster’s American Dictionary is the second most popular book ever printed in English. But who was that Webster? Noah Webster (1758–1843) was a bookish Connecticut farm boy who became obsessed with uniting America through language. He spent twenty...
| Author | Stephen Krensky |
| ISBN | 0679803696 |
1. Book summary, in your own words (3 pts)
Christopher Columbus is a great informational book all about Christopher Columbus and his journey to discovering the new world. It honestly gave more insight into his journey that I did not know very well. It was a great read.
2. Grade level, interest...
| Author | Barbara Kerley |
| ISBN | 0439357918 |
The pioneering team that brought you the Caldecott Honor-winning THE DINOSAURS OF WATERHOUSE HAWKINS focuses their remarkable skills and vision on Walt Whitman--poet, American, Civil War hero.
Did you know that poet Walt Whitman was also a Civil War nurse? Devastated by his country dividing...
| Author | Margaret Davidson |
| ISBN | 0590424033 |
A Biography of a Great Man That Shines
Having read several of Margaret Davidson's books, I admit I have a certain brand loyalty, an admiration for her writing. I heartily recommend anything by Ms. Davidson, and this little book is no exception. As with her biography on Louis Braille, the subject...
| Author | Suzanne Tripp Jurmain |
| ISBN | 0618965815 |
Red oozes from the patient's gums. He has a rushing headache and the whites of his eyes look like lemons. He will likely die within days.
Here is the true story of how four Americans and one Cuban tracked down a killer, one of the word's most vicious plagues: yellow fever. Set in fever-stricken...
| Author | Tanya Lee Stone |
| ISBN | 0756608341 |
Abraham Lincoln, sixteenth president of the United States, led the nation through its darkest hour-the Civil War. Find out about Lincoln's childhood on a frontier farm, how a struggling small town lawyer became president, and why he became one of America's most revered leaders.
In this groundbreaking...
| Author | Susan Sinnott |
| ISBN | 1562477714 |
As part of the American Girls collection, Addy's story is, of course, fiction; however, the information in the book (outside of the snippets of Addy's story that are shared) is factual. What's different about this book as opposed to the other juvenile lit Civil War books I've read is that it's from the...
| Author | Phil Bildner |
| ISBN | 0763673080 |
A fascinating dual biography of tennis greats Martina Navratilova and Chris Evert celebrates the power of equality, respect, and sportsmanship.
Martina Navratilova and Chris Evert come from completely different places and play tennis in completely different ways. Chrissie is the all-American...
| Author | Mike Venezia |
| ISBN | 0516422766 |
Author/Illustrator Mike Venezia has been getting to know the world's greatest artists for as long as he can remember. A graduate of The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Mike believes the best way to introduce children to art and artists is through fun. If children can look at art in a fun way, and...
Bach, Beethoven and the Boys: Music History as It Ought to Be Taught
| Author | David W. Barber |
| ISBN | 0920151108 |
Thank you to everyone who has made BBB such a success!
And yes, what I wrote was to the best of my knowledge (and to my research) the truth!
My books are now being republished under www.IndentPublishing.com and new and revised editions are available on Amazon Kindle, KOBO and through...
Welcome to Samantha's World · 1904: Growing Up in America's New Century
| Author | Catherine Gourley |
| ISBN | 1562477722 |
Fans of The American Girls Collection will love these beautiful nonfiction books. Each offers new perspectives on the past as it really was during the times of the American Girls -- from major historical events to the details of everyday life. Filled with exquisite photos, illustrations, and cutaway...
| Author | Leontyne Price |
| ISBN | 0152015469 |
My second ENO Opera Guide, and this time for my absolute favourite; Aida was my opening to Opera, I had no interest in it at all before a chance invitation to a production by Opera North just blew me away and everything fell into place.
This guide gives the same overview of the Opera, and what the...
