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Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
After the death of her father, seventeen-year-old Enore Adesuwa moves with her family from Nigeria to America, where she intends to keep a low profile her senior year, but with the help from her sister, new friends, and crush, Enore finds her voice in more ways than one.
Author
Series
Publisher
Picture Window Books, an imprint of Capstone
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Camila has entered a singing competition and she knows that she wants to sing her family's favorite song; but when it comes to actually competing Camila is very nervous about the size of the audience and being in the spotlight--but Camila knows her family is there and that she can use that knowledge to overcome her stage fright. Includes artistic activity.
65) The cobra's song
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
When ten-year-old Indian American Geetanjali, part of a family of classical Hindustani music singers, believes her neighbor has become an ichchaadari naagin, a cobra that can turn human, she must overcome her fears and harness the power of her voice before the naagin changes the whole town into snakes.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Twelve-year-old Salva Sanchez has always been a fan of Celia Cruz, also known as "the queen of salsa." Her love of Celia stems from her mother, who leaves Salva without explanation one awful day. Now Salva is stuck with her investigative journalist father in an RV campground. In the middle of nowhere. As Salva acclimates to her new environment and desperately tries to figure out why her mother left, she befriends a posse of campground kids who have...
Author
Series
Publisher
Boynton Bookworks, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Introduces ten rabbits who like to dance, sing, jump, and wiggle their noses in unison to entertain their audience, but anyone is welcome to join the chorus line after donning a pair of bunny ears.
Author
Publisher
Switch Press, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Chelsea has always been overweight, and now in high school she is being unmercifully teased by other students, and even her mother gives her no support, despite her beautiful singing voice--but in film class she is assigned work on a film with Melody and for the first time she finds someone other than her father who does not criticize her, and finally finds the confidence to try out for the school choir.
69) Red
Author
Publisher
Union Square & Co
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Moving to Hawthorne was something Tess and her mom never anticipated, but after Tess's mom loses her job, it's their only option. Tess's grandparents welcome them into their home, on the condition that Tess and her mom attend church, something Mom isn't too pleased about. But Tess enjoys the church community, finding a place in youth group and the church choir. Faith fills a void Tess didn't know she had. After a very personal decision goes public,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Español
Description
Publisher Annotation: A heartwarming and authentic immigration story about a stray dog, the power of music, and celebrating old traditions along with new beginnings. María Emilia's life turns upside-down when she and her family immigrate from Argentina to the US. How can she make new friends when simply speaking English all day is exhausting? Luckily, she has the company of a stray dog in the neighborhood, who happens to look and act just like her...
Series
Publisher
Lata de Sal
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Español
Description
As he walks down the street, Pete the cat sings about his brand new white shoes as they change from red to blue to brown to wet.
Pete se ha comprado unos preciosos zapatos blancos pero en su paseo encuentra diferentes obstáculos que tiñen sus zapatos de muchos colores. Pero él no pierde nunca el buen humor y canta su canción en inglés & siempre.
Author
Series
Flyy girls novels volume 4
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Tobyn Wolfe knows she's destined to be a rock star. She sings, she dances, and she's got that "It" factor. Her dreams are even closer within her reach when she meets Maybe Someday--an incredible all-female band--during a night out with her older sister, Devyn. Joining their band would be the perfect way to show off her amazing vocals. It's too bad her mom can't see this. She wants Tobyn to go to college and become a serious musician, not follow in...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Twelve-year-old Delphernia Undersea has spent her whole life in the cloister, hidden from sea and sky by a dome of stone and the laws of Blightsend. Outside, the Masters - all boys and men - play music. Inside, the turnaway girls silently, silently make that music into gold. Making shimmers, Mother Nine calls it. But Delphernia can't make shimmer. She would rather sing that stay silent. When a Master who doesn't act like a Master comes to the skydoor,...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
Young Linnet, her father, and the other bird-people, the Alkonosts, have been driven to live in the swamps of Morovia, forbidden to sing magic, and often hunted by the humans, so when her father is captured Linnet embarks on a rescue mission.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
Español
Description
El alcalde de la ruidosa ciudad de La Paz instituye nuevas leyes que prohíben todo el canto, pero un gallo valiente decide que debe cantar, a pesar de los castigos progresivamente severos que recibe por seguir cazando. El populacho silenciado, vigorizado por la valentía del gallo, derroca al tirínico alcalde y devuelve su ciudad a su estado libre y clamoroso.
"The mayor of the noisy city of La Paz institutes new laws forbidding all singing, but...
77) K-Pop revolution
Author
Publisher
Point, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"In the sequel to K-Pop Confidential, Candace is a Rookie idol. Her life is suddenly filled with the fans, cameras, and glamor of stardom: She and her boyfriend, YoungBae, are a K-Pop power couple; she's a walking icon at Brandt Foreign School; and her new girl group, known simply as THE GIRLS, is poised to break records across the industry. With her status as the industry's K-Pop Warrior, she has all the clout at her disposal to make waves. Right?...
78) Night runners
Author
Publisher
Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"What seems scary proves surprising in this magical wordless picture book. Guided by a circle of stars on the horizon, a stag bounds into a thick pine forest. Wolves lurk behind the trees, then begin to run after him. When the stag turns to look at his pursuers, he stumbles over a fallen tree and sinks to the forest floor. The wolves close in ... but, unexpectedly, they become the stag's helpers, bringing water, berries and a bandage! After a short...
Author
Series
Publisher
Jolly Fish Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"It’s 1893, and Lorraine Williams can’t wait to attend the Chicago World’s Fair and see her idol, the Black opera singer Sissieretta Jones. But when activist and writer Ida B. Wells urges Black Americans to boycott the fair, Lorraine’s father forbids Lorraine from going. After all, there is no exhibition about the progress that the Black community has made since Emancipation, and the fair has lacked Black representation since it was first...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Maybelle Lane collects sounds. She records the Louisiana crickets chirping, Momma strumming her guitar, their broken trailer door squeaking. But the crown jewel of her collection is a sound she didn't collect herself: an old recording of her daddy's warm-sunshine laugh, saved on an old phone's voicemail. It's the only thing she has of his, and the only thing she knows about him. Until the day she hears that laugh--his laugh--pouring...
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