The Broadneck Library will be closed Monday, April 1 - Tuesday, April 16 for branch improvements. Please plan to pickup your holds at another location

The Riviera Beach Library is currently closed. For more information on the new location, please visit the Riviera Beach Library

Becoming Billie Holiday
(Adobe EPUB eBook, Kindle Book, OverDrive Read)

Book Cover
Average Rating
Published:
Astra Publishing House 2008
Format:
Adobe EPUB eBook, Kindle Book, OverDrive Read
Lexile measure:
970L
Status:
Available from OverDrive
Description
Coretta Scott King Author Honor Award
The stunning voice and hard life of legendary jazz singer Billie Holiday is revealed through evocative, accessible poetry.

 
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 the law. By the time she was fifteen, she knew she possessed something that could possibly change her life—a voice. Eleanora could sing. Her remarkable voice led her to a place in the spotlight with some of the era's hottest big bands. Through a sequence of raw and poignant poems, New York Times best-selling and award-winning poet Carole Boston Weatherford chronicles the singer's young life, her fight for survival, and the dream she pursued with passion.
Also in This Series
Formats
Adobe EPUB eBook
Works on all eReaders (except Kindles), desktop computers and mobile devices with reading apps installed.
Kindle Book
Works on Kindles and devices with a Kindle app installed.
OverDrive Read
Need Help?
If you are having problem transferring a title to your device, please fill out this support form or visit the library so we can help you to use our eBooks and eAudio Books.
More Like This
More Details
Street Date:
10/01/2008
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781629791739
ASIN:
B00YB4ENLI
Lexile measure:
970
Citations
APA Citation (style guide)

Carole Boston Weatherford. (2008). Becoming Billie Holiday. Astra Publishing House.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)

Carole Boston Weatherford. 2008. Becoming Billie Holiday. Astra Publishing House.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)

Carole Boston Weatherford, Becoming Billie Holiday. Astra Publishing House, 2008.

MLA Citation (style guide)

Carole Boston Weatherford. Becoming Billie Holiday. Astra Publishing House, 2008.

Note! Citation formats are based on standards as of July 2022. Citations contain only title, author, edition, publisher, and year published. Citations should be used as a guideline and should be double checked for accuracy.
Copy Details
LibraryOwnedAvailable
Shared Digital Collection33
Anne Arundel County Public Library11
Staff View
Grouped Work ID:
03fbc263-70c8-eebc-255e-551edd4b1212
Go To Grouped Work
Needs Update?:
No
Date Added:
Apr 07, 2017 17:44:48
Date Updated:
Nov 04, 2019 19:56:22
Last Metadata Check:
Mar 24, 2024 04:31:37
Last Metadata Change:
Mar 24, 2024 04:31:37
Last Availability Check:
Mar 24, 2024 04:31:39
Last Availability Change:
Mar 20, 2024 16:34:57
Last Grouped Work Modification Time:
Mar 28, 2024 04:05:51

OverDrive Product Record

sortTitle
Becoming Billie Holiday
crossRefId
2362131
images
    • cover:
        • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-100/0111-1/{4A804BBC-8086-4B4E-8532-B5EB88D9CFF0}Img100.jpg
        • type: image/jpeg
    • thumbnail:
        • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-200/0111-1/{4A804BBC-8086-4B4E-8532-B5EB88D9CFF0}Img200.jpg
        • type: image/jpeg
    • cover150Wide:
        • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-150/0111-1/4A8/04B/BC/{4A804BBC-8086-4B4E-8532-B5EB88D9CFF0}Img150.jpg
        • type: image/jpeg
    • cover300Wide:
        • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-400/0111-1/4A8/04B/BC/{4A804BBC-8086-4B4E-8532-B5EB88D9CFF0}Img400.jpg
        • type: image/jpeg
formats
      • identifiers:
            • type: ISBN
            • value: 9781629791739
            • type: PublisherCatalogNumber
            • value: 569363
      • name: Adobe EPUB eBook
      • id: ebook-epub-adobe
      • identifiers:
            • type: ASIN
            • value: B00YB4ENLI
            • type: PublisherCatalogNumber
            • value: 569363
      • name: Kindle Book
      • id: ebook-kindle
      • identifiers:
            • type: ISBN
            • value: 9781629791739
            • type: PublisherCatalogNumber
            • value: 569363
      • name: OverDrive Read
      • id: ebook-overdrive
mediaType
eBook
primaryCreator
    • role: Author
    • name: Carole Boston Weatherford
id
4a804bbc-8086-4b4e-8532-b5eb88d9cff0
title
Becoming Billie Holiday
starRating
4.3
dateAdded
2016-01-19T11:53:00-05:00
contentDetails
      • href: https://link.overdrive.com/?websiteID=51&titleID=2362131
      • type: text/html
      • account:
          • name: Maryland's Digital Library (MD)
          • id: 831

OverDrive MetaData

interestLevel
UG
isPublicDomain
False
formats
      • fileName: BecomingBillieHolida_9781629791739_2362131
      • partCount: 0
      • fileSize: 8673742
      • identifiers:
            • type: ISBN
            • value: 9781629791739
            • type: PublisherCatalogNumber
            • value: 569363
      • rights:
            • type: Copying
            • value: 0
            • type: Printing
            • value: 0
            • type: Lending
            • value: 0
            • type: ReadAloud
            • value: 0
            • type: ExpirationRights
            • value: 0
      • name: Adobe EPUB eBook
      • isReadAlong: False
      • id: ebook-epub-adobe
      • onSaleDate: 10/1/2008
      • samples:
            • source: From the book
            • formatType: ebook-overdrive
            • url: https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=4a804bbc-8086-4b4e-8532-b5eb88d9cff0&.epub-sample.overdrive.com
      • fileName: BecomingBillieHolida_2362131
      • partCount: 0
      • fileSize: 0
      • identifiers:
            • type: PublisherCatalogNumber
            • value: 569363
            • type: ASIN
            • value: B00YB4ENLI
      • name: Kindle Book
      • isReadAlong: False
      • id: ebook-kindle
      • onSaleDate: 10/1/2008
      • samples:
            • source: From the book
            • formatType: ebook-overdrive
            • url: https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=4a804bbc-8086-4b4e-8532-b5eb88d9cff0&.epub-sample.overdrive.com
      • fileName: BecomingBillieHolida_9781629791739_2362131
      • partCount: 0
      • fileSize: 8673755
      • identifiers:
            • type: ISBN
            • value: 9781629791739
            • type: PublisherCatalogNumber
            • value: 569363
      • name: OverDrive Read
      • isReadAlong: False
      • id: ebook-overdrive
      • onSaleDate: 10/1/2008
      • samples:
            • source: From the book
            • formatType: ebook-overdrive
            • url: https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=4a804bbc-8086-4b4e-8532-b5eb88d9cff0&.epub-sample.overdrive.com
keywords
      • value: Coretta Scott King Award
      • value: sexual assault
      • value: Harlem
      • value: Harlem Renaissance
      • value: Abandonment
      • value: Music
      • value: childhood abuse
      • value: billie holiday
      • value: survival story
      • value: african american poetry
      • value: loss of a parent
      • value: coretta scott king honor
      • value: inspirational biographies
      • value: metoo
      • value: singer biography
      • value: famous singers
      • value: middle grade biography
      • value: carole boston weatherford poetry
      • value: carol boston weatherford poetry
      • value: carol weatherford poetry
      • value: famous women biography
      • value: floyd cooper books
      • value: jazz singer biography
      • value: middle grade #metoo
      • value: middle grade biography in verse
creators
      • role: Author
      • fileAs: Weatherford, Carole Boston
      • bioText: New York Times best-selling author Carole Boston Weatherford’s 60-plus books include the Caldecott Honor book Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre, for which she was awarded the Coretta Scott King Author Award and a Sibert Honor; the Newbery Honor winner Box; and the Caldecott Honor winners Freedom in Congo Square, Fannie Lou Hamer,and Moses. She won a Coretta Scott King Author Honor for Becoming Billie Holiday. Weatherford teaches at Fayetteville State University in North Carolina. Visit cbweatherford.com. 
        Floyd Cooper (1956–2021) illustrated over 110 books for children, including Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre by Carole Boston Weatherford, for which he was awarded a Caldecott Honor, the Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award, and a Sibert Honor. He was also the recipient of the CorettaScott King Award for The Blacker the Berry; three Coretta Scott King Honors for I Have Heard of a Land, Meet Danitra Brown, and Brown Honey in Broomwheat Tea; 10 ALA Notables; and an NAACP Image Award, among other honors. Visit floydcooper.com.
      • name: Carole Boston Weatherford
      • role: Illustrator
      • fileAs: Cooper, Floyd
      • name: Floyd Cooper
imprint
Wordsong
publishDate
2008-10-01T00:00:00-04:00
isOwnedByCollections
True
title
Becoming Billie Holiday
fullDescription
Coretta Scott King Author Honor Award
The stunning voice and hard life of legendary jazz singer Billie Holiday is revealed through evocative, accessible poetry.

 
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 the law. By the time she was fifteen, she knew she possessed something that could possibly change her life—a voice. Eleanora could sing. Her remarkable voice led her to a place in the spotlight with some of the era's hottest big bands. Through a sequence of raw and poignant poems, New York Times best-selling and award-winning poet Carole Boston Weatherford chronicles the singer's young life, her fight for survival, and the dream she pursued with passion.
gradeLevels
      • value: Grade 4
      • value: Grade 5
      • value: Grade 6
      • value: Grade 7
popularity
74
links
    • self:
        • href: https://api.overdrive.com/v1/collections/v1L1BaQAAAA29/products/4a804bbc-8086-4b4e-8532-b5eb88d9cff0/metadata
        • type: application/vnd.overdrive.api+json
id
4a804bbc-8086-4b4e-8532-b5eb88d9cff0
starRating
4.1
images
    • cover:
        • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-100/0111-1/{4A804BBC-8086-4B4E-8532-B5EB88D9CFF0}Img100.jpg
        • type: image/jpeg
    • thumbnail:
        • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-200/0111-1/{4A804BBC-8086-4B4E-8532-B5EB88D9CFF0}Img200.jpg
        • type: image/jpeg
    • cover150Wide:
        • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-150/0111-1/4A8/04B/BC/{4A804BBC-8086-4B4E-8532-B5EB88D9CFF0}Img150.jpg
        • type: image/jpeg
    • cover300Wide:
        • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-400/0111-1/4A8/04B/BC/{4A804BBC-8086-4B4E-8532-B5EB88D9CFF0}Img400.jpg
        • type: image/jpeg
isPublicPerformanceAllowed
False
languages
      • code: en
      • name: English
subjects
      • value: Biography & Autobiography
      • value: Juvenile Nonfiction
      • value: Multi-Cultural
      • value: Music
publishDateText
10/01/2008
otherFormatIdentifiers
      • type: ISBN
      • value: 9781590785072
mediaType
eBook
shortDescription
Coretta Scott King Author Honor Award
The stunning voice and hard life of legendary jazz singer Billie Holiday is revealed through evocative, accessible poetry.

 
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 the law. By the time she was fifteen, she knew she possessed something that could possibly change her life—a voice. Eleanora could sing. Her remarkable voice led her to a place in the spotlight with some of the era's hottest big bands. Through a sequence of raw and poignant poems, New York Times best-selling and award-winning poet Carole Boston Weatherford chronicles the singer's young life, her fight for survival, and the dream she pursued with passion.
sortTitle
Becoming Billie Holiday
lexileScore
970
crossRefId
2362131
publisher
Astra Publishing House
atos
5.8
bisacCodes
      • code: JNF007040
      • description: Juvenile Nonfiction / Biography & Autobiography / Music
      • code: JNF007050
      • description: JUVENILE NONFICTION / Biography & Autobiography / Cultural & Regional
      • code: JNF042000
      • description: Juvenile Nonfiction / Poetry / General