BOOKS TO NOTE: UNIQUE MUSICAL STORIES FOR YOUNG READERS OF ALL AGES (in Non-Fiction and Fiction)

of YO-YO MA (a noted ASIAN AMERICAN MUSICIAN) playing at the U.S. southern border for immigrants waiting to become part of the U.S.

KIDS’ GUIDE TO HAMILTON, THE MUSICAL

of the Hawaiian song inspired by It’s A Wonderful World and Somewhere Over the Rainbow.

THE MUSIC IN GEORGE’S HEAD IN CLUDING “RHAPSODY IN BLUE” (about GEORGE GERSHWIN)

Composer who wrote MAPLE LEAF RAG, THE ENTERTAINER, and other works.

Of the song composed by Hawaii’s last queen.

Of a boy who lives in Hawaii, but has relatives in New York’s Adirondack region. One summer he is sent to visit his NY relatives. Although he wanted to spend the summer playing his ukelele musical instrument on a Hawaiian beach, he discovers a way to play the instrument at a unique event in the area of NY known for its’ mountains and trees.

RED BIRD SINGS – THE SONG OF ZITKALA-SA (GERTRUDE)

KIDS’ MUSICAL COLLECTION

CARNAVAL OF THE ANIMALS

PETER & THE WOLF

Of men and women classical music composers and musicians of the past.

CHILD COMPOSERS IN THE OLD CONSERVATORIES: HOW ORPHANS BECAME ELITE MUSICIANS

DO RE ME – IF YOU CAN READ MUSIC – THANK GUIDO

A boy goes to live with an uncle but doesn’t like it until he discovers a piano.

A high school music teacher hopes to compose a musical masterpiece one day. Life always seems to get in the way. Yet, he manages to put together a composition. It also happens that it helps his young handicapped son.

A boy, Evan, separated from his parents after birth, is now 10 years old. He decides to search for his parents. He leaves the orphanage where he was taken when a baby. He gets to New York City, but then is caught in the web of a Dickens-like character who harbors homeless young people. Along the way he plays music whenever he can, and listens to music he hears; sometimes music others can’t hear. Somehow he gets the chance to go to NYC’s Julliard School of Music at his young age. He comes to believe that the music he will create there at the school will somehow draw his missing parents to him. Meanwhile his parents – his mother a music teacher who plays the cello, and his father, part of a rock band, will happen to find each other again after all those years; but how? The school gives the boy the chance to compose then conduct his own symphony. It will be performed, outside, at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. Will his parents, now happening to be in the city, although separately, sense he’s there?

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Two students who borrow and use instruments on alternate days in a school’s music room start leaving each other notes. At first they’re just to annoy each other, but over time it chances to a unique type of friendship.

BOOKS TO NOTE: MUSICAL FICTION / HISTORICAL FICTION