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Kat Writes a Song
by Greg E. Foley
On a gray and rainy day, a lonely kitten feels better after writing a song, and as she sings the "magic" song around her neighborhood, her animal friends cheer up, as well.
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The Piano
by Juha Virta
What do you do when a piano shows up in your yard? Take a cat-nap? Use it as a coffee table? What's a band to do when one of its instruments goes missing? And what does a yellow sock have to do with anything?
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Rock 'n' Roll Soul
by Susan Verde
A young music lover steps onto the school talent show stage determined to be herself and sing her own unique song.
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The Dance of the Violin
by Kathy Stinson
Young violinist Joshua Bell enters a competition determined to perform a difficult piece of music, but when he begins to play, he promptly makes a mistake and instead of leaving the stage, Joshua decides to asks the judges for a second chance.
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Chuck's Band
by Peggy Perry Anderson
Warming up their instruments and voices for a fun-filled jam session on the farm, farmer Chuck and his barnyard friends are challenged to get Fat Cat Pat to participate in spite of her seeming reluctance.
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Rappy Goes to the Supermarket
by Dan Gutman
A skill-building reader based on the popular Rappy the Raptor stories finds Rappy accompanying his mother to the supermarket and using his rapping talents to help when they discover that the grocery list has been left behind.
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Music Time
by Gwendolyn Hooks
Henry's drum practice at home is too loud so he goes outside and when he sees his friends playing jump rope he figures out a way to play drums and play with his friends.
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Battle of the Bands
by Melody Reed
Keyboardist Jasmine, age eight, tries to convince her bandmates, Maggie, Becca, and Scarlet, to prove themselves in a Battle of the Bands competition, despite their poor equipment.
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Giant Pumpkin Suite
by Melanie Heuiser Hill
A coming-of-age tale of community and unlikely friendship relates the experiences of a 12-year-old musical prodigy who notices incremental differences between her happy-go-lucky twin brother and herself during a summer marked by respective goals, a serious accident and the Minnesota State Fair.
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Flor and Miranda Steal the Show
by Jennifer Torres
When Flor finds out that Miranda and her band could potentially put her family's petting zoo out of business, she forms a plan to keep Miranda from an important performance that night.
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Clayton Byrd Goes Underground
by Rita Williams-Garcia
Feeling most alive when he plays music with his grandfather, aspiring bluesman Clayton Byrd is devastated when his grandfather passes away and his mother forbids him from playing the blues, losses that compel him to run away in the hope of joining other bluesmen on the road.
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Wolfie & Fly : Band on the Run
by Cary Fagan
Independent, bookish Wolfie and her eccentric, verbose friend, Fly, form an ambitious music band together and find themselves playing live onstage in front of a stadium filled with screaming fans whose rowdiness gets out of control, forcing the duo to make a daring escape.
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I'll Be a Musician
by Connie Colwell Miller
A girl named Emmy who is learning to play the violin gets herself through difficult practice by pretending that she is a first violinist and concertmaster in an orchestra, in a book that sheds light on what professional musicians do at a concert.
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What is Rock and Roll?
by Jim O'Connor
A series presented in the same format and designed for the same audience as the phenomenally successful Who Was...? series offers compelling, easy-to-read accounts of historical events that changed our world and includes 16 pages of photos and reproductions as well as illustrations.
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