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Sixteen-year-old Bri hopes to become a great rapper, and after her first song goes viral for all the wrong reasons, must decide whether to sell out or face eviction with her widowed mother.

2) The music teacher from the Black Lagoon

Author

Thaler, Mike

Publisher

Scholastic

Pub. Date

[2009], c2000

Description

A boy contemplates all the horrible stories he has heard about the music teacher, Miss LaNote, and the ordeals she forces her students to endure.

3) Froggy plays in the band

Author

London, Jonathan

Publisher

Viking

Pub. Date

2002

Description

Book, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

Froggy's marching band practices for their debut at the Apple Blossom Parade, hoping to win the big prize.

4) This lullaby: a novel

Author

Dessen, Sarah

Formats

Description

Raised by a mother who has had five husbands, eighteen-year-old Remy believes in short-term, no-commitment relationships until she meets Dexter, a rock band musician.

5) The last holiday concert

Author

Clements, Andrew

Formats

Description

Life is usually easy for popular fifth grader Hart Evans, but when his music teacher puts him in charge of the holiday concert, Hart must use all of his leadership skills to unite the other students.

6) Change sings: a children's anthem

Author

Gorman, Amanda

Pub. Date

2021.

Formats

Description

"As a young girl leads a cast of characters on a musical journey, they learn that they have the power to make changes--big or small--in the world, in their communities, and in most importantly, in themselves"--

7) The bear and the piano

Author

Litchfield, David

Pub. Date

2016.

Formats

Description

Books for Toddlers
Interactive Picture Books

"A bear finds a piano in the woods, learns to play it, and travels to the big city to become rich and famous, but ultimately discovers that his old friends in the forest back home are still the best audience of all"--

8) The bard and the beast / (bk. 9 Kingdom of Wrenly)

Author

Appears on list

Formats

Description

Prince Lucas would rather be enjoying the outdoors with his best friend, Clara, than learning to play the lute, until a visiting bard demonstrates the power of music.

9) Play this book

Author

Young, Jessica

Pub. Date

2018.

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Formats

Description

Illustrations and simple, rhyming text invite the reader to try various instruments and join a band.

10) Splat the cat with a big bang and a clang

Author

Hsu Lin, Amy

Publisher

Harper

Pub. Date

c2013

Description

Splat's friends are having a rehearsal for their cool new band, the Cat Gang. But something's missing: it just doesn't feel right without Splat! Everyone wants Splat to join the band. But Splat can't sing and he doesn't play an instrument! What can he do that is perfect for the Cat Gang?

11) Melodie the music fairy / (bk. 2 Rainbow Magic Party Fairies)

Author

Meadows, Daisy

Publisher

Scholastic

Pub. Date

2010.

Description

Melodie the Music Fairy's magic is missing, and party music is hitting all the wrong notes. Rachel and Kirsty have to change the goblins' tune!

12) Frosting and friendship / (bk. 3 Cupcakes)

Author

Schroeder, Lisa

Publisher

Aladdin

Pub. Date

2013.

Description

"Twelve-year-old Lily finds herself knee-deep in sugar and sheet music as she tries to juggle her responsibility to her bandmates and give her friend the best Sweet Thirteen party ever"--

13) Maya the harp fairy / (bk. 5 Music Fairies)

Author

Meadows, Daisy

Publisher

Scholastic

Pub. Date

2010.

Description

Rachel and Kirsty must find Maya's magic harp so the wedding day in Wetherbury is not ruined.

14) Zin! zin! zin!: a violin

Author

Moss, Lloyd

Formats

Description

Ten instruments take their parts one by one in a musical performance.

15) Year Zero: a novel

Author

Reid, Rob

Pub. Date

2012

Formats

Description

"Low-level entertainment lawyer Nick Carter thinks it's a prank, not an alien encounter, when a redheaded mullah and a curvaceous nun show up at his office. But Frampton and Carly are highly advanced (if bumbling) extraterrestrials. And boy, do they have news. The entire cosmos, they tell him, has been hopelessly hooked on humanity's music ever since "Year Zero" (1977 to us), when American pop songs first reached alien ears. This addiction has driven...

16) The bear, the piano, the dog, and the fiddle

Author

Litchfield, David

Pub. Date

2019.

Formats

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.

17) Last things

Author

West, Jacqueline

Pub. Date

2019

Formats

Description

"Anders Thorson, front man of his metal band, Last Things, is unusually gifted for a teenager, but strange things in the Minnesota woods near his hometown are threatening him. Thea, the new girl in town, says she's there to protect him, but is that the whole truth?"--

18) 12 days of princess

Author

Rice, Holly

Publisher

Disney Press

Pub. Date

2021.

Description

"Inspired by the famous song "The Twelve Days of Christmas," a new holiday tradition is here: the twelve days of princess! Countdown to Christmas with Tiana, Rapunzel, Merida, Cinderella, Belle, Aurora, Snow White, and Ariel. Each day brings a new magical gift, like two glass slippers or seven singing dwarfs, from one of your favorite Disney Princesses to help get you into the holiday spirit"--

19) Miguel and the grand harmony

Author

de la Peña, Matt

Publisher

Disney Press

Pub. Date

[2017]

Description

"La Música exists in many places--in the twang of a guitar, in the beat of a drum, even in the whistling wind and the morning bird's son. She brings color and life wherever she goes, connecting people to a grand harmony. And in the town of Santa Cecilia, she is everywhere. When La Música discovers a boy with longing in his heart and no music in his home, she vows to help him find his passion."--Dust jacket.

20) Little Pig joins the band

Author

Costello, David

Publisher

Charlesbridge

Pub. Date

c2011

Description