Jonah Winter
1) Dizzy
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After arriving in New York, John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie was soon playing with the famous Cab Calloway Band, but his clowning around got him fired. Dizzy kept trying out his new music which took over the world of jazz. He had invented "bebop!"
3) Thurgood
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A biography of the first black justice to serve on the Supreme Court.
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Mother Jones is MAD, and she wants you to be MAD TOO, and stand up for what's right! Told in first-person, New York Times bestelling author Jonah Winter, and acclaimed illustrator Nancy Carpenter, share the incredible story of Mother Jones, an Irish immigrant who was essential in the fight to create child labor laws. Well into her sixties, Mother Jones had finally had enough of children working long hours in dangerous factory jobs, and decided she...
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A picture book relating the true story of billy barr--who does not capitalize his name when he writes it--and how he moved to Colorado and lived in a little shack in the Rocky Mountains. Bored one day, he began taking measurements of the yearly snowfall and snow melt, tracking it over decades and inadvertently building a database for tracking climate change.