Guitar Genius: How Les Paul Engineered the Solid-Body Electric Guitar and Rocked the World
by Kim Tomsic and Brett Helquist
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- PK-2
- Genre
- Biography
- Nonfiction
- Picture Book
Year Published 2019
Word Count 1,843
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 720L
- ATOS Reading Level: 4.3
- AR Quiz Numbers
- Quiz 503674, 0.5 AR Points
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- Curricular Area
- History
- Music
- Science
- Social Studies
- STEAM
- Subject Headings
- Guitarists--United States--Biography--Juvenile literature
- Children's Books/Ages 4-8 Nonfiction
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Music | History
- Paul, Les--Juvenile literature
- Guitarists
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Biography & Autobiography | General
- Inventors
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Music | Instruments
- Inventors--United States--Biography--Juvenile literature
- Paul, Les
- United States
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Technology | Inventions
- Lists With This Book
- WOW Biographies of Musicians
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Selection, 2020

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