Aaron Copland (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Composers)


By Mike Venezia

Reading Level: Late Elementary School, Middle School
Genre: Biography
Publisher: Scholastic 1995

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Get to know Aaron Copland, great American composer of the 20th-century in this richly illustrated biography.


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Caldecott Medal

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Coretta Scott King Award

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Golden Kite Award

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Scott O'Dell Historical Fiction Award

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