Who Was Louis Armstrong?

by Yona Zeldis McDonough, John O'Brien

Overview

A product of the rough New Orleans neighborhood known as Storyville, young Louis Armstrong may never have become a musician had it not been for a stint in reform school. But it was his passion and genius that made Armstrong into a an American jazz legend. Illustrations.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780756931209
Publisher:	Perfection Learning Corporation
Publication date:	09/01/2004
Series:	Who Was? Series
Pages:	112
Product dimensions:	5.25(w) x 7.50(h) x 0.25(d)
Age Range:	8 - 12 Years

About the Author

Yona Zeldis McDonough is the author of the novels You Were Meant For Me, Two of a Kind, A Wedding in Great Neck, Breaking the Bank, In Dahlia’s Wake, and The Four Temperaments, as well as nineteen books for children. She is also the editor of two essay collections and is the Fiction Editor at Lilith magazine. Her award-winning short fiction, articles, and essays have been published in anthologies and in numerous magazines and newspapers. She lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her husband and two children.