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Who Was Louis Armstrong?
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Who Was Louis Armstrong? Paperback - 2005

by McDonough, Yona Zeldis

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A product of the rough New Orleans neighborhood known as Storyville, young Louis Armstrong may never have become a musician had it not been for a stint in reform school. But it was his passion and genius that made Armstrong into a an American jazz legend. Illustrations.

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  • Title Who Was Louis Armstrong?
  • Author McDonough, Yona Zeldis
  • Binding Paperback
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 112
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penguin Young Readers Group, New York
  • Date 2005-01-01
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Maps
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 4985027-6
  • ISBN 9780448433684 / 0448433680
  • Weight 0.26 lbs (0.12 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.64 x 5.36 x 0.26 in (19.41 x 13.61 x 0.66 cm)
  • Ages 08 to 12 years
  • Grade levels 3 - 7
  • Reading level 780
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
    • Ethnic Orientation: African American
  • Library of Congress subjects African Americans, Jazz musicians - United States
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2003024471
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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Summary

If not for a stint in reform school, young Louis Armstrong might never have become a musician. It was a teacher at the Colored Waifs? Home who gave him a cornet, promoted him to band leader, and saw talent in the tough kid from the even tougher New Orleans neighborhood called Storyville. But it was Louis Armstrong?s own passion and genius that pushed jazz into new and exciting realms with his amazing, improvisational trumpet playing. His seventy-year life spanned a critical time in American music as well as black history.

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Citations

  • Booklist, 02/01/2005, Page 980
  • Hornbook Guide to Children, 07/01/2005, Page 400

About the author

Yona Zeldis McDonough is the author of the novels You Were Meant For Me, Two of a Kind, A Wedding in Great Neck, Breaking the Bank, In Dahlia's Wake, and The Four Temperaments, as well as nineteen books for children. She is also the editor of two essay collections and is the Fiction Editor at Lilith magazine. Her award-winning short fiction, articles, and essays have been published in anthologies and in numerous magazines and newspapers. She lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her husband and two children.

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