02311cam a2200409 i 4500 296138728 TxAuBib 20170602120000.0 170227s2017||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u bl2017008561 9781626725461 1626725462 NjBwBT eng rda NjBwBT TxAuBib rda eng fre Bagieu, Pénélope. California dreamin [GRAPHIC] : Cass Elliot Before the Mamas & the Papas / Pénélope Bagieu. First edition, First American edition. New York : First Second, 2017. 266 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier sti rdacontent rdamedia rdacarrier Chiefly illustrations. Includes bibliographical references. Before she was the legendary Mama Cass of the folk group The Mamas and the Papas, Ellen Cohen was a teen girl from Baltimore with an incredible voice, incredible confidence, and incredible dreams. She dreamed of being not just a singer but a star. Not just a star-a superstar. So at the age of nineteen, at the dawn of the sixties, Ellen left her hometown and became Cass Elliot. At her size, Cass was never going to be the kind of girl that record producers wanted on album covers. But she found an unlikely group of co-conspirators, and in their short time together this bizarre and dysfunctional band recorded some of the most memorable songs of their era. Through the whirlwind of drugs, war, love, and music, Cass struggled to keep sight of her dreams, of who she loved, and-most importantly-who she was. GN290L Lexile. Decoding demand: 90 (very high) Semantic demand: 100 (very high) Syntactic demand: 49 (medium) Structure demand: 87 (very high) Lexile. 20170602. Elliot, Cass 1941-1974 Comic books, strips, etc. Women singers United States Biography Comic books, strips, etc. Graphic novels. Comics (Graphic works.) Biographies.