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Sweet Music in Harlem - AWARDS AND HONORS

National Institute for the Humanities - Picturing America Collection
We The People Bookshelf 2009

Book of Outstanding Merit-Bank Street Book Committee 2006

Children's Book Council Choices (CCBC)  2005

International Reading Association Notable Book 2005

Michigan Great Lakes Great Books Award Nominee 2006


News:

Ann Arbor District Library hosts French Dukes Celebration (2024)
Excerpt featured in Our Hidden Conversations  by Michele Norris (2024)
First Book Champions (Literacy Advocates)  (2024)
Cohort 2022 of Amply Black Voices Highlights Foundation (2021)
Writers of Ypsilanti (2021)
Detroit Puppet Theater Adaptation of "Over in Motown" (2021)
Co-Chair Literacy Committee Brown Chapel AME Church, Ypsilanti (2021)


Over in Motown
Fifth Avenue Press (2019)
Debbie A Taylor
Illustrated by Keisha Morris
ISBN 978-1-947989-16-0
1947989162

A JUNIOR LIBRARY GUILD SELECTION

"An energetic picture book celebrating the musical genres and rhythms of industry that fueled Detroit in the Motown era."

Books available at
Source Booksellers  4240 Cass Avenue, Detroit, Michigan 48201


                                     

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Step It Up! The French Dukes
Fifth Avenue Press (2023)
Debbie A. Taylor
Illustrated by Kristle Marshall
ISBN/ 978-1-956697-24-7

Ten-year-old Kenny Mitchell longs to be a member of the French Dukes Precision Drill Team. With the help of his older brother, he learns to "step it up" just in time to help the French Dukes win an important talent competition. Set in the 1960s Ann Arbor, Kenny’s story is inspired by the real-life French Dukes Precision Drill Team.

Books available at Black Stone Bookstore and Cultural Center

214 W. Michigan Ave. Ypsilanti, Michigan 48197
www.blackstonebookstore.com/     



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Sweet Music in Harlem 
Lee and Low Books (2004)
Debbie A. Taylor
Illustrated by Frank Morrison       

ISBN: 1-58430-165-1
BUY BOOK AT LEE AND LOW: 
https://www.leeandlow.com/
DOWNLOAD FREE TEACHER'S GUIDE AT THIS
LINK
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https://www.leeandlow.com/books/sweet-music-in-harlem/teachers_guide

C.J. needs to act fast. A photographer from Highnote magazine is on his way to photograph Uncle Click, a well-known jazz musician, but Uncle Click's signature hat is missing. Now it's up to C. J. to hunt down the hat in time for the photo shoot. Little does C. J. know that his whirlwind search through Harlem sets in motion the making of a magical moment of friendship and music.

    "The characters' passion for jazz is echoed on their expressive faces and in their graceful postures, and Uncle Click's affection for his nephew shines through. A wonderful ode to the power of music and of family love." - SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL

"Bright acrylics abandon realism to emphasize rhythm, elongated forms moving against backgrounds that curve, slant, and boogie-woogie—but almost never stay still. Nearly pitch-perfect." - KIRKUS REVIEWS

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