TY - BOOK AU - Christensen,Bonnie TI - Django /Bonnie Christensen SN - 9781596434226 AV - ML3930 .D536 2009 PY - 2009/// CY - New York PB - Flash Point/Roaring Brook Press KW - Reinhardt, Django, KW - Guitarists KW - France KW - Biography KW - Juvenile literature KW - Jazz musicians N1 - "A Neal Porter book."; 1 and discography; 2 N2 - Born into a traveling gypsy family, young Django Reinhardt taught himself guitar at an early age. He was soon acclaimed as the "Gypsy Genius" and "Prodigy Boy," but one day his world changed completely when a fire claimed the use of his fretting hand. Folks said Django would never play again, but with passion and perseverance he was soon setting the world's concert stages ablaze ER -