Becoming Billie Holiday by Weatherford, Carole Boston

Becoming Billie Holiday

Coretta Scott King Author Honor Award The stunning voice and hard life of legendary jazz singer Billie...
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Author: Carole Boston Weatherford
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Language: English
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Becoming Billie Holiday by Weatherford, Carole Boston

Becoming Billie Holiday

$52.70

Becoming Billie Holiday

$52.70
Author: Carole Boston Weatherford
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Coretta Scott King Author Honor Award

The stunning voice and hard life of legendary jazz singer Billie Holiday is revealed through evocative, accessible poetry.

In 1915, Sadie Fagan gave birth to a daughter she named Eleanora. The world, however, would know her as Billie Holiday, possibly the greatest jazz singer of all time. Eleanora's journey to become a legend took her through pain, poverty, and run-ins with the law. By the time she was fifteen, she knew she possessed something that could possibly change her life--a voice. Eleanora could sing. Her remarkable voice led her to a place in the spotlight with some of the era's hottest big bands. Through a sequence of raw and poignant poems, New York Times best-selling and award-winning poet Carole Boston Weatherford chronicles the singer's young life, her fight for survival, and the dream she pursued with passion.

Author: Carole Boston Weatherford
Publisher: Wordsong
Published: 10/01/2008
Pages: 120
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.07lbs
Size: 9.60h x 6.90w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9781590785072
Audience: Young Adult

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 5.8
Point Value: 2
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 124496 / Becoming Billie Holiday


Award: Coretta Scott King Award - Honor Book
Award: Tayshas Reading - Commended


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Review - Children 09/01/2008 pg. 961
Booklist 10/01/2008 pg. 53
School Library Journal 10/01/2008 pg. 176
Kirkus Best Young-Adult Books 12/01/2008 pg. 22
Voice of Youth Advocates 12/01/2008 pg. 443 - Recommended - Better Than Most
SLJ's Best Books 12/01/2008 pg. 41
ALA Best Books Young Adults 03/15/2009 pg. 7
Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/2009 pg. 190 - Recommended, Satisfactory

About the Author
Carole Boston Weatherford is an award-winning poet and author of over two dozen books for young readers. She lives in High Point, North Carolina.

Floyd Cooper has illustrated more than sixty books for children and young adults including Miss Crandall's School for Young Ladies & Little Mises of Color by Elizabeth Alexander and Marilyn Nelson and Tough Boy Sonatas by Curtis L. Crisler. He lives in Easton, Pennsylvania.


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