How Jelly Roll Morton Invented Jazz
by Jonah Winter and Keith Mallett
There’s a tall-tale feeling to this picture-book biography, and not just because... read more
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- Grade
- PK-2
- Genre
- Biography
- Nonfiction
- Picture Book
Year Published 2015
Word Count 849
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: Currently Not Available
- ATOS Reading Level: 4.8
- AR Quiz Numbers
- Quiz 174758, 0.5 AR Points
- Curricular Area
- English Language Arts
- Music
- Subject Headings
- Morton, Jelly Roll
- Children's Books/Ages 4-8 Nonfiction
- Jazz musicians
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Music | Jazz
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Biography & Autobiography | Music
- Jazz musicians--United States--Biography--Juvenile literature
- Biographies
- Morton, Jelly Roll, 1890-1941--Juvenile literature
- United States
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Audio Name Pronunciation with Jonah Winter
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About the Authors 5
Audio Name Pronunciation with Jonah Winter
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Nonfiction Read and Respond Multi-Leveled Lesson
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