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2) The Haters
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
A road trip adventure about a trio of jazz-camp escapees who, against every realistic expectation, become a band.
3) Last things
Author
Language
English
Description
"Anders Thorson, front man of his metal band, Last Things, is unusually gifted for a teenager, but strange things in the Minnesota woods near his hometown are threatening him. Thea, the new girl in town, says she's there to protect him, but is that the whole truth?"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
For Angel Ahmadi, life is only about one thing: The Ark -- a pop-rock trio of teenage boys who are currently taking the world by storm. Being part of The Ark's fandom has given her everything -- her friendships, her dreams, her place in the world. Jimmy Kaga-Ricci owes everything to The Ark too. He's their frontman -- and playing in a band is all he's ever dreamed of doing. It's just a shame that recently everything in his life seems to have turned...
6) Born to rock
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
High school senior Leo Caraway, a conservative Republican, learns that his biological father is a punk rock legend.
7) Azar on fire
Author
Series
Perfectly Parvin volume 2
Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Fourteen-year-old Azar Rossi sets out to find her voice and win her local Battle of the Bands contest"--
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Musically gifted seventeen-year-old Kyler and his new neighbor Lennon, who is crippled by her OCD, discover that the strength to survive, live, and love can be found in unexpected places.
Author
Series
Babysitters coven volume 3
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Esme suspects that the trouble brewing in Spring River has something to do with a new band that reeks of Red Magic.
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Branded by a middle school humiliation, fourteen-year-old Wilbur needs help from friends Alex, Fabrizio, and elderly neighbor Sal to impress Charlie, a French girl whose school band is doing an exchange with his.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Four fan-girls of The Ruperts, sneak away to a hotel in Manhattan to see their favorite boy band, but when one of them literally drags Rupert Pierpont to their room and they tie him up, things get complicated--and when Rupert is killed things go from bad to worse.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Griff has grown up in the shadow of his twin brother, Leo, and their prepper community, but hearing a radio broadcast of strange, beautiful music compels Griff to decide if surviving is truly living.
15) Hopepunk
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"After her sister runs away, teenager Hope Cassidy rebels against her conservative family by starting a rock band with her former crush, Danny, who is kicked out of his house when he comes out to his family"--
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
In 1983, a band led by a David Bowie lookalike prepares to compete in a battle of the bands at a possibly evil brewery, and must also cope with the fact that bass player Evan is getting sicker and sicker, much like his best friend Noah's abusive father did before his death several years earlier.
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Eva, Celeste, Gina, and Steph used to think their friendship was unbreakable. After all, they've been though a lot together, including the astronomical rise of Moonlight Overthrow, the world-famous queer pop band they formed in middle school. But after a sudden falling out leads to the dissolution of the teens' band, their friendship, and Eva and Celeste's starry-eyed romance, nothing is the same"--
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
When new-girl Cirrus mistakes self-described nerd Sunny Dae as the lead in a rock band, Sunny rolls with it forming a fake band with his friends, but as the lies continue he risks losing both Cirrus and his friends.
When self-proclaimed nerd Sunny Dae meets Cirrus Soh, she mistakes Sunny's older brother Gray's bedroom, with its electric guitars and rock posters, for Sunny's own. He sort of, kind of, accidentally winds up telling her he's the front...
19) Bad at love
Author
Series
Publisher
Underlined
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Ever since Daniel moved to L.A. from Brazil to join the band Mischief & Mayhem, he's become the tabloids' bad boy. Paparazzi follow him and girls swoon over him ... except for Sasha, who hates bad boys. When a chance encounter brings them together, Sasha sees an opportunity to get close to Daniel and write a story that will make a name for herself at the celebrity gossip magazine where she interns. But Daniel is surprisingly sweet and extremely cute--could...
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023].
Language
English
Description
"She's destined to be a great Trinidadian Carnival costume designer like her renowned uncle, Russel Messina, and will one day inherit leadership of the family's masquerade band, Grandeur. Her classmate, the popular social media influencer, Brandon Richards, is the bane of her existence. Everything about him irks her, from his annoying nickname for Tess ("Boop") to his association with David, her awful ex. But when the future of Grandeur nears the...
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