Musical Instruments
Classic Young Adult Books
Africa
Debut Singles
Black and White Films
100

Jazz artist Kenny G has sold more than 75 million records worldwide playing this instrument.

Saxophone

100

This collection of young adult books by Swedish author Astrid Lindgren was about a freckled face red headed girl.

Pippi Longstocking

100

This system of institutionalized racial segregation existed in South Africa from 1948 until the early 1990s.

Apartheid

100

1983

Girls Just Want To Have Fun

Cyndi Lauper

100

Once a violent tornando took her over the rainbow, Dorothy began to see everything in color in this 1939 classic.

The Wizard of Oz

200

Known as the Talking (blank) this kind of instrument was banned during the slave trade because they were being used by the slaves to communicate over long distances in a code unknown to their enslavers.

Drum

200

It became the memoirs of a young Jewish girl living in Amsterdam during the Holocaust.

The Diary of Anne Frank

200

After 13 years and four children, this former president's first marriage came under strain when his wife who had become one of Jehovah's Witnesses refused to participate in any of his political interests. 

Nelson Mandela

200

1990

Vision of Love

Mariah Carey

200

In 1932, a lawyer in Maycomb, Alabama agrees to defend a young black man who is accused of assaulting a young White woman.

To Kill a Mockingbird

300

This stringed instrument has a number of individual strings running at an angle to its soundboard and are plucked with the fingers. 

Harp

300

A group of British schoolboys survive a plane crash and find themselves deserted on an uninhabited island where they are alone without adult supervision.

Lord of the Flies

300

This animal kills more people in Africa than crocodiles and lions combined

Hippopotamus

300

1979

Rapper's Delight

Sugar Hill Gang

300

Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Berman star in this 1942 romance drama about a nightclub owner in Morocco who discovers that his old flame and her husband are in town and need help getting out. 

Casablanca

400

This half size flute has most of the same fingerings as a standard flute, but the sound it produces is an octave higher than written.



Piccolo

400

An aspiring juvenile writer gets caught writing her brutally honest opinions about her best friends in her notebook

Harriet the Spy

400

Soccer and this sport are Africa's most popular.

Cricket

400

1999

Bailamos

Enrique Iglesias

400

David and Jennifer are two 1990s teenage siblings who find themselves in a 1950s sitcom where their influence begins to profoundly change that complacent world.



Pleasantville

500

Nora Jones' father, Ravi Shankar, was known as the best known proponent of this Indian instrument in the second half of the 20th century.


Sitar

500

Three oprhan brothers struggle to stick together in their lower-class neighborhood and roam the East Side with their tough gang called the Greasers.

The Outsiders

500

It is the largest curtain of falling water on the planet, one and a half times wider than Niagara Falls and twice as high. It's also one of the seven natural wonders of the world.

Victoria Falls

500

1967

Brown Eyed Girl

Van Morrison

500

Out of the 190 nominations, this 2011 silent French film won 124 awards, including Best Film at the Oscars.

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