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Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
©2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
On the night of her jazz dance recital Mindy feels too nervous to go, until a magical drum whisks her back to the Savoy Ballroom in Harlem in the 1930s, where Benny Goodman and Chick Webb are performing and where she finds her "happy feet."
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
It is 1969 in Spanish Harlem, and fourteen-year-old Evelyn Serrano is trying hard to break free from her conservative Puerto Rican surroundings, but when her activist grandmother comes to stay and the neighborhood protests start, things get a lot more complicated - and dangerous.
Author
Publisher
Carolrhoda Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In the 1930s, Lewis's dad, Lewis Michaux Sr., had an itch he needed to scratch - a book itch. how to scratch it? He started a bookstore in Harlem and named it the National Memorial African Bookstore. And as far as Lewis Michaux Jr. could tell, his father's bookstore was one of a kind. People from all over came to visit the store, even famous people - Muhammad Ali, Malcolm X, and Langston Hughes, to name a few. In his father's bookstore people bought...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In Harlem in the 1920s, in the middle of a family Christmas party, Marie receives a nutcracker from her Uncle Cab, which leads to a marvelous dream in this resetting of E.T.A. Hoffmann's familiar tale. Includes historical notes.
Author
Publisher
Lee & Low Books
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
C.J., who aspires to be as great a jazz musician as his uncle, searches for Uncle Click's hat in preparation for an important photograph and inadvertently gathers some of the greatest musicians of 1950s Harlem to join in on the picture.
Author
Series
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In the summer of 1928, Lilly Belle Turner of Smyrna, Tennessee, participates in a young author's writing program, taught by Zora Neale Hurston and hosted by A'Lelia Walker in her Harlem teahouse at the height of the Harlem Renaissance
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