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Who Was Louis Armstrong?
Contributor(s): McDonough, Yona Zeldis (Author), O'Brien, John (Illustrator)
ISBN: 0756931207     ISBN-13: 9780756931209
Publisher: Turtleback Books
OUR PRICE:   $15.64  
Product Type: Prebound - Other Formats
Published: January 2005
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Biography & Autobiography - Music
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Biography & Autobiography - Cultural, Ethnic & Regional
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Music - Jazz
Dewey: B
Lexile Measure: 780
Series: Who Was...?
Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5.4" W x 7.6" (0.45 lbs) 106 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - 20th Century
- Ethnic Orientation - African American
Accelerated Reader Info
Quiz #: 85429
Reading Level: 5.2   Interest Level: Middle Grades   Point Value: 1.0
 
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Publisher Description:
If not for a stint in reform school, young Louis Armstrong might never have become a musician. It was a teacher at the Colored Waifsa Home who gave him a cornet, promoted him to band leader, and saw talent in the tough kid from the even tougher New Orleans neighborhood called Storyville. But it was Louis Armstrongas own passion and genius that pushed jazz into new and exciting realms with his amazing, improvisational trumpet playing. His seventy-year life spanned a critical time in American music as well as black history.