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Becoming Billie Holiday

By Carole Boston Weatherford, Floyd Cooper (Illustrator)
Hardcover
$19.95
By Carole Boston Weatherford, Floyd Cooper (Illustrator)
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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 all time. Eleanora's journey to become a legend took her through pain, poverty, and run-ins with th...