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Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 31 cm
Language
English
Description
"The band is assembled and the band director is ready to tell you all about the instruments, but an enthusiastic little drummer girl keeps interrupting"--
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
34 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 31 cm
Language
English
Description
Hugo the dog becomes the star of an all-animal band after learning to play his best friend Hector's fiddle, and despite Hector's jealousy, remains grateful to the man who gave him his start.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2017]
Lexile measure
670L
Physical Desc
310 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old María Luisa O'Neill-Morales (who really prefers to be called Malú) reluctantly moves with her Mexican-American mother to Chicago and starts seventh grade with a bang--violating the dress code with her punk rock aesthetic and spurning the middle school's most popular girl in favor of starting a band with a group of like-minded weirdos.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
AD 270L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
After school orchestra practice, young Nic carries his double bass through rough neighborhoods to his grandfather's home, where he and Grandaddy Nic play jazz music with friends, delighting the neighbors.
Author
Series
Lexile measure
670L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Once an inseparable trio, whether in their little band or on the football field, Justin, Tony, and Miles have drifted apart in middle school (Justin to band and his old friends to sports); now, after a summer of jamming, Justin decides to try out the football team with his old friends--but he finds little encouragement from them, and he misses the new friends he made in the school band.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
880L
Physical Desc
435 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"It's 1941, and tensions are rising in the United States as the Second World War rages in Europe. Eleven-year-old Gusta's life, like the world around her, is about to change. Her father, a foreign-born labor organizer, has had to flee the country, and Gusta has been sent to live in an orphanage run by her grandmother. Nearsighted, snaggletoothed Gusta arrives in Springdale, Maine, lugging her one precious possession: a beloved old French horn, her...
9) Last things
Author
Language
English
Description
High school senior Anders Thorson is unusually gifted. His band, Last Things, is legendary in their northern Minnesota hometown. With guitar skills that would amaze even if he weren't only eighteen, Anders is the focus of head-turning admiration. And Thea Malcom, a newcomer to the insular town, is one of his admirers. Thea seems to turn up everywhere Anders goes: gigs at the local coffeehouse, guitar lessons, even in the woods near Anders's home....
10) The Haters
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Lexile measure
900L
Physical Desc
325 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A road trip adventure about a trio of jazz-camp escapees who, against every realistic expectation, become a band.
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Lexile measure
AD 490L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
When Little Pig tries to join his Grandpa, brothers, and sisters in a marching band he discovers that, although he is too small for any of the available instruments, he can still play an important role.
Author
Series
Publisher
Albert Whitman and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Lexile measure
AD 910L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
Frankie Frog is unable to croak, but when he sees four joyful humans playing strange objects, he realizes there is another way for him to find his voice.
Author
Series
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
394 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
During a school field trip to NASA, middle school band geeks Dev, Austin, Tessa, Isaiah, and Meryl are accidentally sent to an alternate universe where they learn that their own universe's destruction is imminent.
14) Cub shrugs
Author
Series
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Lexile measure
230L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Cub is glum and does not want to do anything with his friends until Bird decides they should all form a band.
15) Pinch me
Author
Series
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Lexile measure
HL 480L
Physical Desc
125 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
After a night of partying, teen pop sensation Darius Zaire wakes up to find himself back in his mother's house where his success of the past three years no longer exists. He desperately wants to wake up from this nightmare, but as the day progresses, Darius starts to worry that maybe this is his reality.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
31 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Pinkalicious and her friends want to start a band, but they don't have any instruments! Pinkalicious will need to find a creative answer. When Pinkalicious realizes there are amazing sounds all around, she figures out what to do." -- Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Publisher
Calico, an imprint of Magic Wagon
Pub. Date
[2015]
Lexile measure
470L
Physical Desc
111 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Seventh-grader Davis Beadle joins the Benton Bluff Junior High band, stubbornly determined to play the trumpet--but that section is full, so the band director instructs him to spend time with several of the other instruments, hoping Davis will find his true place in the band.
Author
Series
Publisher
Calico, an imprint of Magic Wagon
Pub. Date
[2015]
Lexile measure
480L
Physical Desc
112 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
The Benton Bluff Junior High band is one of a number of bands that will compete to perform for a chance to play for the governor, and two of the band members are fighting over who gets to be the soloist--Baylor Meece (clarinet) is not one of them, so can she come up with a plan to bring the band back into harmony?
Author
Series
Publisher
Magic Wagon
Pub. Date
[2015]
Lexile measure
470L
Physical Desc
111 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
The whole Benton Bluff Junior High band is at band camp, and when things start to go missing everybody blames Zac, the class clown--but when Zac's saxophone disappears he suspects that it is someone in another group trying to sabotage Benton Bluff, and sets out to uncover the culprit.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014
Lexile measure
600L
Physical Desc
80 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Immediately after switching schools, Jon Gummyshoes, fourth-grade detective, is confronted with a new case--someone is trying to sabotage one of the bands in the upcoming Battle of the Bands by threatening the lead singer.
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