Author: Robin Nelson
Series: Pop Culture Bios
Narrator: Book Buddy Digital Media
Unabridged: 0 hr 23 min
Format: Digital Audiobook
Publisher: Findaway
Published: 01/01/2017
Genre: Children & Young Adults Nonfiction - Biography & Autobiography
Includes: Bonus PDF
You may know that singing sensation Taylor Swift has won over fans of both pop and country music. But did you know that Taylor: Used to help out on her family’s Christmas tree farm by pulling bugs off the trees? Yuck! Won a national poetry contest in fourth grade with her poem “Monster in My Closet”?Thought of the melody for her hit song “Tim McGraw” in her ninth-grade math class and sang it into her phone in the school bathroom so she wouldn't forget it?Want to know more about the life of this talented celebrity? Read on to learn all about Taylor's childhood, family, career, boyfriends, favorite things, and more!
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