Collier, James Lincoln

Describes string, woodwind, brass, percussion, and keyboard instruments and outlines their importance in the production of various types of music.

Richard Ayre travels to America to become an indentured servant in the Jamestown Colony, where he befriends an Native American boy who teaches him an important lesson about friendship.

Surveys the lives and music of such well-known jazz performers as Jelly Roll Morton, Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Charlie Parker, and others.

Discusses how to organize and run a group to play popular music and how to manage rehearsals, develop a distinctive sound, get bookings, and handle publicity.

George suddenly finds himself the darling of a New York television company where plans are made to turn him into a singing, guitar-playing teen-age idol.

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

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.

Harold is sent to a psychiatrist for reporting that he had seen a medieval city. He later enters the city and travels back in time.