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Author
Series
How to build a girl volume 1
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
After she shames herself on local television, Johanna Morgan reinvents herself as Dolly Wilde, a fast-talking, hard-drinking Gothic hero. Two years later, while eviscerating bands as a music critic, she realizes she's built Dolly with a fatal flaw.
Author
Series
If I stay volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Adam, now a rising rock star, and Mia, a successful cellist, reunite in New York and reconnect after the horrific events that tore them apart when Mia almost died in a car accident three years earlier.
7) 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.
8) Remix
Author
Publisher
SSBFYR
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Two girls test the strength of their friendship--and their hearts--at a summer music festival.
9) Chorus
Author
Publisher
RP Teens
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Pursuing an independent life with a band of her own in Los Angeles, Alpha returns to her ailing older brother's side and works with fellow revolutionaries to stop the return of Corp in the wake of increasing numbers of music-addicted victims.
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.
12) Here we are now
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
While her mother is out of town, sixteen-year-old Taliah accompanies her estranged father--a famous rock star who one day appears on her doorstep--to Oak Falls, Indiana, to meet his dying father and the rest of his family, and on the way, Taliah learns about how her parents met and separated, her mother's experience as a Jordanian immigrant, and her own ability to accept change and open up to others.
13) Punk Farm
Author
Publisher
Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
At the end of the day, while Farmer Joe gets ready for bed, his animals tune their instruments to perform in a big concert as a rock band called Punk Farm. After a long day of work, Farmer Joe goes home to bed. But meanwhile, back at the barn - Cow sets up her drums. Pig plugs in his amp. Goat tunes his bass. Chicken sets up her keyboards. And Sheep checks the microphone. They are Punk Farm and tonight they're ready to ROCK! With adorable farm animals...
14) Vampire weekend
Author
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Everything you've heard about vampires is a lie. They can't fly. No murders allowed (the community hates that). And turning into a bat? Completely ridiculous. In fact, vampire life is just a lot of blood bags and night jobs. For Louise Chao, it's also lonely since she swore off family ages ago. At least she's gone to decades of punk rock shows. And if she can join a band of her own (while keeping her situation under wraps), maybe she'll finally feel...
Author
Publisher
Soft Skull
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Set in the suburbs of Los Angeles and New York City, I Love You So Much It's Killing Us Both is an immersive journey into the life and mind of Khaki Oliver, who's perennially trying to disappear into something: a codependent friendship, an ill-advised boyfriend, the punk scene, or simply, the ether. These days it's a meaningless job and a comfortingly empty apartment. Then, after a decade of estrangement, she receives a letter from her former best...
Author
Publisher
Inkyard Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"It's summer 1977 and closeted lesbian Tammy Larson can't be herself anywhere. Not at her strict Christian high school, not at her conservative Orange County church and certainly not at home, where her ultrareligious aunt relentlessly organizes antigay political campaigns. Tammy's only outlet is writing secret letters in her diary to gay civil rights activist Harvey Milk--until she's matched with a real-life pen pal who changes everything. Sharon...
Author
Publisher
Viking Children's Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Ariel has dreams of leaving her southside Chicago neighborhood and making it big as a punk rocker with her best friends and bandmates, now that they've graduated from high school, but the realities of young adulthood make that challenging and strain their friendships with each other."--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Good guy Karl Bender is a thirty-something bar owner whose life lacks love and meaning. When he stumbles upon a time-travelling worm hole in his closet, Karl and his best friend Wayne develop a side business selling access to people who want to travel back in time to listen to their favorite bands. It's a pretty ingenious plan, until Karl, intending to send Wayne to 1980, transports him back to 980 instead. Though Wayne sends texts extolling the...
Author
Publisher
Soho Press, Inc
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
All her life Iph has protected her sensitive younger brother, Orr. This summer, with their mother gone at an artist residency, their father decides it is time for Orr to toughen up at a wilderness boot camp. When he brings Iph to a work gala in downtown Portland and breaks the news, Orr has already been sent away. Furious at his betrayal, Iph storms off and gets lost in the maze of Old Town. Enter George, a queer Robin Hood who swoops in on a bicycle,...
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Constantine is not your average bad boy… John Constantine is, and has always been, a magician of the highest caliber—who doesn’t need additional training from any highbrow magician, thank you very much. Sensing an opportunity for independence, Constantine falsely accepts an apprenticeship in the United States to instead become the lead singer of his best friend’s punk band, Mucous Membrane. When the band begins to dabble in magic, a complicated...
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