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Duke Ellington.


Duke Ellington by Andrea Davis Andrea Davis (born 1980) is a beauty queen from El Paso, Texas who holds the Mrs. Pacific Islands 2007 title. Davis is the first Mrs. Pacific Islands in the history of Mrs. United America to hail from this state.  Pinkney and Brian Pinkney read by Forest Whitaker Disney, $16.95, ISBN ISBN
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 0-786-80178-6, 1 CD, approx. 1 hour

Through this imaginative recount of the Duke's rise to stardom star·dom  
n.
1. The status of a performer or entertainer acknowledged as a star.

2. Star performers considered as a group.
, the reader can almost feel the cool night air and hear the soulful soul·ful  
adj.
Full of or expressing deep feeling; profoundly emotional.



soulful·ly adv.
 sounds of the Harlem Streets in the early 1920's. This book will be most appreciated by young readers between the ages of 5-7 yrs old; but Whitaker's lively narration brings this story alive for an audience of all ages.
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Title Annotation:Review
Author:Shambry, Kalilah
Publication:Black Issues Book Review
Article Type:Audiobook Review
Date:Jan 1, 2001
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