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Author
Series
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Enlisting in a marching band at the start of his vacation, Paddington Bear is challenged to use his sense of adventure to save the parade from a whimsical mishap.
Author
Series
Olivia books (Ian Falconer) volume 4
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Olivia decides there has to be a marching band at the fireworks display, even if she has to do it herself.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
For Sophie, small-town life has never felt small. With her four best friends, she can weather any storm. But when Sophie's beloved Acadia High School marching band is selected to march in the upcoming Rose Parade, it's her job to get them all the way to LA. Her plan? To persuade country singer Megan Pleasant, their Midwestern town's only claim to fame, to come back to Acadia to headline a fundraising festival. The only problem is that Megan has very...
Author
Publisher
Levine Querido
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Best friends Matt and Eric are hatching a plan for one big final adventure together before Eric moves away: during the marching band competition at a Giant Amusement Park, they will sneak away to a nearby comics convention and meet their idol--a famous comic creator. Without cell phones. Or transportation. Or permission. Of course, their final adventure together is more than just that--really, it's a way for the boys to celebrate their friendship,...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Yasmín Treviño didn't have much of a freshman year thanks to Hurricane Humphrey, but she's ready to take sophomore year by storm. That means mastering the marching side of marching band--fast!--so she can outshine her BFF Sofia as top of the flute section, earn first chair, and impress both her future college admission boards and her comfortably unattainable drum major crush Gilberto Reyes. But Yasmín steps off on the wrong foot when she reports...
8) Drumline
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003], c2002
Language
English
Description
Halftime is party time for the gifted street drummer who snares the top spot in his university's marching band. However, he initially flounders in his new world, before realizing that it takes more than talent to reach the top.
9) Full flight
Author
Publisher
Wednesday Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Told in alternating perspectives, in a small town in Texas, mellophone player Weston Ryan and saxophonist Anna James are forced to work together on a duet for their school's marching band competition.
Author
Series
Georgie Darcy volume 1
Publisher
Wednesday Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Georgiana Darcy returns to Pemberley Academy for her junior year, hoping to atone for last year's incident with Wickham by rebuilding her reputation, rejoining the marching band, and setting up her older brother Fitz with his college classmate Lizzie Bennet.
12) Forward march
Author
Publisher
Page Street Publishing Co., Macmillan
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Harper McKinley is many things: a band geek, the daughter of the school dean, the daughter of the Republican presidental candidate... and the alleged owner of a lesbian profile on Tinder. Since Tinder profiles are forbidden for students at her school, and being gay is not in line with the family values of her father's political party, Harper faces serious consequences on two fronts if anyone finds out, but since she didn't make it, she can't delete...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Ellie Magari's mother left shortly after Ellie was born, and her father has raised her, but Ellie always figured that one day she would meet her mother and ask her some pertinent questions--but now her mother has died, and Ellie does not know exactly how to feel about that, but she is determined, with the help of her friends in the St. Francis of Assisi's Howling Wolves marching band (where she plays the glockenspiel), to make some...
14) The music man
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
"Professor" Harold Hill is a con man who comes to River City, IA, in the weeks just prior to the 1912 Fourth of July celebration. Persuading the town that the youth of River City is in great danger of being corrupted, Hill convinces them that their need to organization a boy's band, with himself as a leader. Hill promises to teach the kids how to make music by utilizing his revolutionary "Think System." There's only one problem: the professor doesn't...
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