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The music of silence: New Edition (Amadeus Ser.)
By Andrea Bocelli. 2011
Using a third-person narrative, opera singer Bocelli, who as a young boy lost his vision to congenital bilateral glaucoma, describes…
his childhood in Italy and his interest, education, and career in music. Relates challenges he faced and overcame. Originally published in Italian. 2011The waterman: a novel of the Chesapeake Bay
By Tim Junkin. 1999
Clay Wakeman spent his boyhood on the water and finds he can't leave it. When his father is lost in…
a storm off the Eastern Shore, Clay drops out of college to take possession of his father's boat and his work as a waterman, that is, as an independent commercial fisherman. He recruits his oldest friend, Byron. Hurricane Agnes roars in to ruin the salinity of the eastern Bay waters. Agnes forces them across the Bay to set their crab traps along the Virginia shoreline and to move in with Matt and Kate, Clay's upper crust friends from college. UnratedPiano starts here: the young Art Tatum
By Robert Andrew Parker, Robert A. Parker. 2008
The squire's tale (Squire's Tales #1)
By Gerald Morris. 1998
Terence--a young lad who lives with Trevisant, the hermit of the Gentle Wood--meets Gawain of Orkney, who is traveling to…
King Arthur's court to join the Knights of the Round Table. Trevisant foresees Terence's departure as Gawain's squire. Terence then begins an adventure that ultimately reveals his true identity. For grades 5-8Fallen angels
By Walter Dean Myers. 1988
Ritchie Perry, a black youth from Harlem, enlists in the army. He is sent to Vietnam where he struggles to…
survive racist officers, pitched battles, guerrilla raids, and multiple wounds. Violence and strong language. For senior high and older readers. 1988Mutiny!
By Brad Strickland. 2002
In 1687 eleven-year-old Irish orphan Davy sails to Jamaica to live with his uncle, Dr. "Patch" Shea. They join a…
British frigate where Patch and his friend Lieutenant William Hunter help stage an aborted mutiny. Fleeing, the mutineers commandeer a sloop and masquerade as pirates. Precedes Guns of Tortuga (BR 15069). For grades 4-7. 2002A boy at war: a novel of Pearl Harbor
By Harry Mazer. 2001
December 7, 1941. Fourteen-year-old Adam lives in Honolulu, Hawaii, where his father is stationed on a battleship. Adam and two…
of his classmates are fishing in a rowboat when the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor. Although wounded, Adam is conscripted to help the survivors. For grades 6-9. 2001A Star Explodes: The Story of Supernova 1054
By James Gladstone, Yaara Eshet. 2023
Disgraceland: Musicians Getting Away with Murder and Behaving Very Badly
By Jake Brennan. 2019
From the creator of the popular rock 'n' roll true crime podcast, DISGRACELAND comes an off-kilter, hysterical, at times macabre…
book of stories from the highly entertaining underbelly of music history.You may know Jerry Lee Lewis married his thirteen-year-old cousin but did you know he shot his bass player in the chest with a shotgun or that a couple of his wives died under extremely mysterious circumstances? Or that Sam Cooke was shot dead in a seedy motel after barging into the manager's office naked to attack her? Maybe not. Would it change your view of him if you knew that, or would your love for his music triumph? Real rock stars do truly insane thing and invite truly insane things to happen to them; murder, drug trafficking, rape, cannibalism and the occult. We allow this behavior. We are complicit because a rock star behaving badly is what's expected. It's baked into the cake. Deep down, way down, past all of our self-righteous notions of justice and right and wrong, when it comes down to it, we want our rock stars to be bad. We know the music industry is full of demons, ones that drove Elvis Presley, Phil Spector, Sid Vicious and that consumed the Norwegian Black Metal scene. We want to believe in the myths because they're so damn entertaining.DISGRACELAND is a collection of the best of these stories about some of the music world's most beloved stars and their crimes. It will mix all-new, untold stories with expanded stories from the first two seasons of the Disgraceland podcast. Using figures we already recognize, DISGRACELAND shines a light into the dark corners of their fame revealing the fine line that separates heroes and villains as well as the danger Americans seek out in their news cycles, tabloids, reality shows and soap operas. At the center of this collection of stories is the ever-fascinating music industry--a glittery stage populated by gangsters, drug dealers, pimps, groupies with violence, scandal and pure unadulterated rock 'n' roll entertainment.The Boy Who Saved Cleveland: Based on a True Story
By James Cross Giblin. 2006
During a malaria epidemic in late eighteenth-century Cleveland, Ohio, ten-year-old Seth Doan surprises his family, his neighbors, and himself by…
having the strength to carry and grind enough corn to feed everyone. Based on a true story.Across Frozen Seas
By John Wilson. 1997
Short-listed for the 1998 Sheila A. Egoff Award for Children’s Literature and Geoffrey Bilson Award In his third young adult…
title, John Wilson takes on the rich territory of the 1845 Franklin expedition. Cabin boy David Young travels aboard the ill-fated vessel the HMS Erebus from London, England, en route to Canada’s frozen and uncharted north, and his adventures comes to a modern-day Dave Young in Humboldt, Saskatchewan, in a series of dreams.Lisa Lopes
By Nancy Krulik. 2002
"Dreams are hopeless aspirations, inhopes of coming true, believe in yourself, the rest is up to me and you." --…
"Waterfalls" Tionne "T-Boz" Watkins, Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes, and Rozanda "Chilli" Thomas came together in Atlanta, Georgia, in the early 1990s to form TLC, a group that blended hip-hop, dance, and R&B music so successfully that it went on to be one of the bestselling female groups of all time. This is the story of how Lisa Lopes, the self-proclaimed "crazy" member of TLC, rose above her difficult childhood to attain superstardom. With her funky raps and her vivacious personality, Lisa pursued her dreams and became known as the most energetic member of TLC, who went on to pave the way for many female groups that followed.Sir Cumference and All the King's Tens (Sir Cumference)
By Cindy Neuschwander. 2009
Join Sir Cumference and the gang for more wordplay, puns, and problem solving in the clever math adventure about place-value…
and counting by tens. Sir Cumference and Lady Di planned a surprise birthday party for King Arthur, but they didn&’t expect so many guests to show up. How many lunches will they need? And with more guests arriving by the minute, what about dinner? Sir Cumference and Lady Di count guests by tens, hundreds, and even thousands to help young readers learn place-value. Fans will love this new installment of the Sir Cumference series that makes math fun and accessible for all.