Louis Armstrong: An American Success Story

By James Lincoln Collier, Collier

Duke Ellington: Great Achievers

By James Lincoln Collier, Collier, JamesLincoln Collier

Traces the life of the internationally acclaimed musician and composer who helped popularize jazz music.

LOUIS ARMSTRONG

By James Lincoln Collier

A biography of one of America's most important musicians, who was born in extreme poverty and never had a real music lesson, but became world famous for his singing and trumpet playing.

The Winchesters

By James Lincoln Collier

Fourteen-year-old Chris, a poor relation of the wealthy Winchesters, must chose whether to be on the side of management or labor when his classmates' parents go on strike at the Winchester mill in...

Planet Out of the Past

By James Lincoln Collier

Young people search for hominids on another planet similar to Earth and experience all the dangers Earth possessed in prehistoric times.

The Bloody Country

By James Lincoln Collier

In the mid-eighteenth century a family moves from Connecticut to Pennsylvania and becomes involved in the property conflict between the two states.

My Brother Sam Is Dead

By James Lincoln Collier

Recounts the tragedy that strikes the Meeker family during the Revolution when one son joins the rebel forces while the rest of the family tries to stay neutral in a Tory town.

Duke Ellington

By James Lincoln Collier

Traces the life of the internationally acclaimed musician and composer who helped popularize jazz music.

Outside Looking in

By James Lincoln Collier

Ashamed of his parents' way of life traveling around the country peddling honey for medicinal purposes and stealing, Fergy takes his young sister and runs away to find his mother's wealthy parents...

The jazz kid

By James Lincoln Collier

Playing the cornet is the first thing that twelve-year-old Paulie Horvath has taken seriously, but his obsession with becoming a jazz musician leads him into conflict with his parents and into the...