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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
Jacky Ha-Ha volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
"Jacky Hart has found a hidden talent in the performing arts, and she's a triple threat onstage! She wants nothing more than to act and sing all summer--but her parents have other plans for her"--
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
In Shining Night, Lena’s overnight fame as an actress, after being cast in a lead role in a film, continues to pull her into the spotlight, while teaching her what it means to shine for God. And now she’s faced with her biggest challenge yet. When Lena’s favorite music artist, Mallory Winston, sends her a gift box filled with photos and memories of their time on tour together, she finds out that new friends from the children’s hospital they...
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
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
1240L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From New York Times bestselling and award-winning author and American Ballet Theatre principal dancer Misty Copeland comes a nonfiction picture book celebrating dancers of color who have influenced her on and off the stage. As a young girl living in a motel with her mother and her five siblings, Misty Copeland didn't have a lot of exposure to ballet or prominent dancers. She was sixteen when she saw a Black ballerina on a magazine cover for the first...
Author
Series
Thea Stilton. Mouseford Academy volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Thea Sisters are thrilled about the new performing arts program being offered at Mouseford Acacemy. That is, until they meet the head of the department -- the demanding and strict Professor Ratyshnikov. The mouselets will have to audition just to get into her class! On top of that, the famouse ballerinea is an old friend of Headmaster de Mousus, but the two no longer get along. It's up to the Thea Sisters to find out why!
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Discover more about the comedy team that perfected the art of the pie fight! The Three Stooges were the hardworking children of immigrants and discovered a love of performing at an early age. Starting out as a vaudeville act, they soon transitioned into movies, becoming a worldwide sensation in feature films and shorts. Never the critics' darlings, audiences loved them for their mastery of physical comedy and their willingness to do anything for...
10) Isabelle
Author
Series
Girl of the year. 2014: Isabelle volume 1
Girl of the year. 2014 Isabelle volume 1
Isabelle Palmer books volume 01
Girl of the year. 2014 Isabelle volume 1
Isabelle Palmer books volume 01
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
810L
Language
English
Description
Isabelle, who attends a performing arts school in Washington, D.C., with her older sister, Jade, has a passion for ballet dancing but lacks self-confidence.
Author
Series
Jake the fake volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
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 last laugh is on him.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Receiving a mysterious guitar the night before she leaves the city to live with her mom and new stepdad, Lou believes that if she learns how to play it, she can bring a piece of her old life home.
From award-winning author Sara Zarr comes a story of the small moments that show us who we are, and how family is not just something you're part of, but something you make. Lou and her family don't have much, but for Lou it's enough. Mom. Her sister, Casey....
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Series
Norendy tales volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"Shut up in a trunk by a taciturn old sea captain with a secret, five friends--a king, a wolf, a girl, a boy, and an owl--bicker, boast, and comfort one another in the dark. Individually, they dream of song and light, freedom and flight, purpose and glory, but they all agree they are part of a larger story, bound each to each by chance, bonded by the heart's mysteries. When at last their shared fate arrives, landing them on a mantel in a blue room...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 12.8 - AR Pts: 23
Lexile measure
960L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"No better introduction to William Shakespeare's dramatic masterpieces exists than the delightful prose adaptations of Charles and Mary Lamb. Charles Lamb, perhaps the preeminent essayist in English lierature, and his gifted sister selected twenty of Shakespeare's best-known plays and set out to make them accessible to children and to pay enthusiastic homage to the original works." -- Book jacket.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
Description
Amelia Jones always dreamed of attending the Mystwick School of Musicraft, where the world's most promising musicians learn to create magic. So when Amelia botches her audition, she thinks her dream has met an abrupt and humiliating end - until the school agrees to give her a trial period. Amelia is determined to prove herself, vowing to do whatever it takes to become the perfect musician. Even if it means pretending to be someone she isn't. Meanwhile,...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
Things are finally looking up for Amelia Jones: she's officially a Mystwick student, and she even has a teacher to help her learn how to use her rare Composing magic. When Mystwick enters an international magic competition, it's Amelia's chance to Compose something that will help them win the day. The only problem is that she still doesn't understand how her powers work. But then she hears about a super exclusive Midnight Orchestra--half performance,...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
1010L
Language
English
Description
"The Mummy's story was inspired by the opening of King Tut's tomb in 1922. The film producers of the early Dracula and Frankenstein films wasted no time creating a character who's been creeping out of his coffin and entertaining audiences since 1932. Author Sheila Keenan explains the history of the movie and its remakes, the legendary curse of King Tut's mummy, and what lies ahead for this monstrous creature"--
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
920L
Language
English
Description
"Who was David Bowie? A young boy named David Jones who studied art, music, and design at school. A pioneer of the glam rock movement, as Ziggy Stardust and his band the Spiders from Mars. One of the most influential musicians of the twentieth century. All of the above!"--
Author
Series
Jake the fake volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Having discovered his natural talent for comedy at his school's end-of-semester talent show, Jake decides to pursue "his art," but can his comedian-mentor teach Jake humility as well as humor?
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