Book Detail
Keep on Singing |
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Publication Information |
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| Author: Livingston, Myra Cohn | Illustrator: Byrd, Samuel |
| Title: Keep on Singing | Date: 1994 |
| Publisher: Holiday House | City: New York |
| ISBN, paperback: 0-8234-1098-6 | ISBN, hardback: |
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| ABE/ABLE: Yes | ESOL: |
| Family: Yes | Young Adult: |
| Picture: Yes | |
General Information: |
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| Book Type(s): poetry, true story, biography and autobiography, easy reading | |
HSE Descriptor(s): language arts - reading| social studies |
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Summary: |
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| The story of the life of the singer Marian Anderson is told in ballad form. The author's notes at the end of the book include additional biographical information. | |
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| Teachers could include this book in text sets in units on civil rights/segregation and multiculturalism. It also would be good paired with Miss Ida's Porch and the short story "Singing" in Choices. Learners may want to consider effect of poetry as a vehicle for biography. Marian Anderson www.kennedy-center.org/programs/family/mariananderson/women.html | |
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