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Oscar Lives Next Door is a fictional story inspired by these facts. The book imagines a next-door neighbor for Oscar named Millie, who gets into mischief with him but also appreciates his talents: Oscar hears music in everything, and Millie calls him a magician for the way he can coax melodies from his trumpet. Millie writes to Oscar during his long stay in the hospital for tuberculosis, and she encourages his earliest notes on the piano.
Set in Oscar's true childhood neighborhood of St-Henri — now known as Little Burgundy — the book provides a wonderful sense of this 1930s neighborhood where most of Montreal's Black working class population lived. Detailed digital illustrations make the community's culture and music almost tangible.
The book concludes with a page of informational text about the author's own connection to Little Burgundy and a short biography of the jazz legend.
- Bonnie Farmer - Author
- Marie Lafrance - Illustrator
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- ISBN: 9781771472258
- File size: 67427 KB
- Release date: November 1, 2015
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Lexile® Measure:660
Text Difficulty:3