Becoming Billie Holiday

Becoming Billie HolidayBy: Carole Boston Weatherford Illustrator: Floyd Cooper Coretta Scott King Author Honor Award The stunning voice and hard life of legendary jazz singer Billie Holiday is revealed through evocative, accessible poetry written by Children's Literature Legacy Award winner Carole Boston Weatherford. In 1915, Sadie Fagan gave birth to a daughter she named Eleanora. The world, however, would know her as Billie Holiday, possibly the greatest jazz singer of

and will shape the world we live in tomorrow

speaking to the modern reader with the intensity of personal experience and a vividness of detail that gives it a riveting you-are-there quality

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emotionally resonant stories light candles along the path as we each search for purpose

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Dumai has spent her life in a Seiikinese mountain temple

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The book also includes tips and tricks to control anger