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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Pinkalicious and her friends want to start a band, but they don't have any instruments! Pinkalicious will need to find a creative answer. When Pinkalicious realizes there are amazing sounds all around, she figures out what to do."--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
670L
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old María Luisa O'Neill-Morales (who really prefers to be called Malú) reluctantly moves with her Mexican-American mother to Chicago and starts seventh grade with a bang--violating the dress code with her punk rock aesthetic and spurning the middle school's most popular girl in favor of starting a band with a group of like-minded weirdos.
Author
Series
Little Pig (David Costello) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
360L
Language
English
Description
When Little Pig tries to join his Grandpa, brothers, and sisters in a marching band he discovers that, although he is too small for any of the available instruments, he can still play an important role.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Fourth 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...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 160L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Pete the Cat can't wait to drive the school bus all the way to school! Everyone's favorite cat is groovier than ever in this way-cool adaptation of the classic kids' song "The Wheels on the Bus"!
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"Cline Alden's grandmother says that music is in the family's blood, but Cline's mother is dead-set against her daughter's dreams of becoming a country music singer; Cline is determined to find the money to attend a Young Singer-Songwriter Workshop in Lexington (not too far from her Paris, Kentucky home), so now she has a lot on her mind--she is hiding things from her mother, she is losing her beloved grandmother to Alzheimer's, and she has begun...
Author
Lexile measure
AD 590L
Language
English
Description
"Words burn bright in this joyful celebration of rap, creativity, and self-expression. "Welcome to the cypher! Now huddle up nice and snug. You feel that circle around you? Well, that's a hip hop hug!" Starting with beatboxes and fingersnaps, an exuberant narrator introduces kids in his community to the powerful possibilities of rap, from turning "a simple phrase/into imagery that soars" to proclaiming, "this is a voice that represents me!" As Khodi...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
Description
Clayton feels most alive when he's with his grandfather, Cool Papa Byrd, and the band of Bluesmen -- he can't wait to join them, just as soon as he has a blues song of his own. But then the unthinkable happens. Cool Papa Byrd dies, and Clayton's mother forbids Clayton from playing the blues. And Clayton knows that's no way to live. Armed with his grandfather's brown porkpie hat and his harmonica, he runs away from home in search of the Bluesmen, hoping...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 550L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Rosa organizes her friends into the Oak Street Band in order to earn money her family needs because of her Grandma's illness ... Community, family and personal triumphs converge, making unforgettable music for everyone. And the money jar--in which the family saved their change to buy the big red chair and Rosa's accordion--is empty too. Leora, Mae, and Jenny often make music for Grandma. She says their playing makes her feel like a girl again, dancing...
15) Mole music
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 540L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Feeling that something is missing in his simple life, Mole acquires a violin and learns to make beautiful, joyful music.
16) This lullaby
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Description
Remy, a master at getting rid of boyfriends before any emotional attachments form, finds herself strangely unwilling to free herself from Dexter, a messy, disorganized, impulsive musician who she suspects she has come to love.
17) Bats in the band
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 600L
Language
English
Description
When the weather warms up, bats take advantage of an empty theater to stage a concert.
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