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1) Music
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Describes some of the many different types of instruments made throughout history, and discusses their construction and sound. Includes photographs.
Description
Eccentric inventor Caractacus Potts creates an extraordinary car called Chitty chitty bang bang. It not only drives--but also flies and floats--as it leads him, his two children and his beautiful lady friend, Truly Scrumptious into a magical world of pirates, castles and adventure. There, the group encounter a host of unforgettable characters, including Baron Bomburst of Vulgaria, his persnickety wife, a lovable village toymaker and an evil child...
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
Presents a rare, behind-the-scenes look at Jackson as he developed, created, and rehearsed for his sold-out concerts at London's 02 Arena. Drawn from more than one hundred hours of behind-the-scenes footage, the singer, dancer, filmmaker, architect, creative genius, and great artist at work is captured in raw and candid detail as he created and perfected his planned final London shows.
Description
Eccentric inventor Caractacus Potts, his two children and his beautiful lady friend, Truly Scrumptious go on a picnic at the beach where they are soon whisked into a magical world of pirates, castles and a flying car called Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. In the adventure that ensues, they journey to Vulgaria and encounter the evil Baron Comburst and his child-hating wife, who kidnaps Potts' children and steals the magic car. With the aid of the village...
Pub. Date
[2006]
Formats
Description
Traces Johnny Cash's childhood, including his distant father to his early attempts at a music career. At this point in his life he marries his girlfriend Vivian. During a tour with singer/musicians Elvis and Jerry Lee Lewis, he encounters singer June Carter, and his love for her, and her rejection of him through the years, spurs him into drugs, drinking, and depression. June is both a sassy spitfire singer whose charm breaks hearts and eventually...
10) Jersey boys
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
The story of four young men from the wrong side of the tracks in New Jersey who came together to form the iconic 1960s rock group The Four Seasons
Author
Series
Gallaghers of Ardmore trilogy volume 2
New Irish trilogy volume 2
Gallagher siblings trilogy volume 2
Irish trilogy)
New Irish trilogy volume 2
Gallagher siblings trilogy volume 2
Irish trilogy)
Formats
Description
Songwriter Shawn Gallagher claims to be content with his life, but his music tells a different story. Brenna O'Toole, a fiercely independent tomboy who is secretly in love with Gallagher, provides him with the chance to fulfill his destiny as both man and musician.
14) Gene Autry
Series
Pub. Date
2003
Description
Four western films featuring Gene Autry. The man from music mountain: When Gene Autry is swindled into buying worthless plots of land he attempts to trick the land developer into buying them back; Oh, Susanna!: A western musical in which Gene Autry is robbed and thrown from a train; The old barn dance: Autry outsmarts the land connoisseur who seems to possess every major company in town; The old corral: Sheriff Autry protects a witness to a murder...
Pub. Date
[2006]
Formats
Description
As if the result of some strange mass-media fluke, the popular radio program "A Prairie Home Companion" somehow managed to survive the television age to entertain its audience every Saturday night from the stage of the historic Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul, Minn. Week after week, hangdog host G.K. serves as unflappable emcee to an amiable hodgepodge of radio-friendly acts that include the likes of popular country duo Yolanda and Rhonda Johnson and...
18) Sweet Dreams
Pub. Date
[1999], p1985
Description
A biographical film on the life of the late country singer Patsy Cline.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 13
Formats
Description
The voice of Music narrates the tale of its most beloved disciple, young Frankie Presto, a war orphan raised by a blind music teacher in a small Spanish town. At nine years old, Frankie is sent to America in the bottom of a boat. His only possession is an old guitar and six precious strings. But Frankie's talent is touched by the gods, and his amazing journey weaves him through the musical landscape of the 20th century, from classical to jazz to rock...