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Travels with Louis

Author: Mick Carlon
Publisher: Fredonia, N.Y. : Leapfrog Press, ©2012.
Series: Leapkids
Edition/Format:   Book : Elementary and junior high school : Fiction : English : 1st edView all editions and formats
Summary:
"Queens, 1959. Twelve-year-old Fred loves reading, baseball, and playing trumpet with none other than Louis Armstrong. This endearing friendship solidifies as Fred accompanies Louis around the country and abroad"--
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Genre/Form: Juvenile fiction
Fiction
Named Person: Louis Armstrong; Louis Armstrong
Material Type: Elementary and junior high school, Fiction
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Mick Carlon
ISBN: 9781935248354 1935248359
OCLC Number: 783153283
Notes: "A LeapKids Book."
Description: 245 p. ; 20 cm.
Series Title: Leapkids
Responsibility: Mick Carlon.

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"Queens, 1959. Twelve-year-old Fred loves reading, baseball, and playing trumpet with none other than Louis Armstrong. This endearing friendship solidifies as Fred accompanies Louis around the country and abroad"--

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ABSOLUTELY WONDERFUL

by dawnmoreau (WorldCat user published 2012-09-20) Excellent Permalink

I really, really, REALLY love Travels With Louis!  When I finished it, the characters kept living in my head for days--so I picked it up and read it again.  As a musician, it has made me seek out even more of Louis Armstrong's wonderful music--AND Langston Hughes' poetry--AND the music of...
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moving, exciting, and fun

by frankmaguire (WorldCat user published 2012-09-12) Excellent Permalink

My son loved this first, so I gave it a whirl.  Travels With Louis is a big-hearted ride of a book.  At one moment the reader is hanging with Langston Hughes in the Village Vanguard.  Then the reader is sitting with Louis Armstrong and Dizzy Gillespie on a relaxing, snow-driven day. ...
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Tremendously fun and affecting

by matcat1 (WorldCat user published 2012-09-24) Excellent Permalink

A teenage girl remarked on how much she loved Mick Carlon's "Travels With Louis" last week, so I read it, too.  What a beautiful story!  Big Fred, Little Fred, Louis, Sarah Ann...they are alive in my imagination and heart.  I am talking up this novel to everyone who comes...
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