Stead, Colombian Music, Ben Frost
The 12-year-old heroine of When You Reach Me navigates 1970s New York City all by herself. Pop music from Colombia gets global attention. And the composer Ben Frost uses wolf cries and other scary sounds to make beautiful haunting tunes.
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