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Books about Music for teens
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Guitar notes
by Mary Amato
A debut young adult novel by the author of the Riot Brothers series follows an unlikely friendship between a straight-A classical musician and a bad-boy guitar player, in a tale told through notes, lyrics, texts and narration.
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Naked '76
by Kevin Brooks
Playing bass with one of London's wildest bands, punk artist Lili Garcia meets a fellow musician who is haunted by the life he left behind, a situation that prompts Lili to search for what she truly wants.
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Nick & Norah's infinite playlist
by Rachel Cohn
High school student Nick O'Leary, member of a rock band, meets college-bound Norah Silverberg and asks her to be his girlfriend for five minutes in order to avoid his ex-sweetheart.
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Beautiful Music for Ugly Children
by Kirstin Cronn-Mills
The award-winning author of The Sky Always Hears Me and the Hills Don't Mind presents the story of teen DJ Gabe, a transgender youth who knows himself to be a boy and whose efforts to gain acceptance are threatened by a violent gang of bullies.
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Just listen : a novel
by Sarah Dessen
Although Annabel's façade makes people think she has everything going for her, she is lonely since she and Sophie are no longer speaking and her anorexic sister gets all the attention at home, until she meets reformed bad boy Owen, who just may be the one person who can help Annabel face the imperfections of life.
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Exile
by Kevin Emerson
As band manager for the up-and-coming DangerHeart, seventeen-year-old Summer Carlson navigates a relationship with the lead singer and decides whether to act on information that could rocket the band to stardom
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Playlist for the dead
by Michelle Falkoff
Shattered by his best friend's suicide, Sam listens to a playlist left for him by his friend hoping to gain an understanding of what happened, which Sam comes to better comprehend by listening to the survivors in his friend's world.
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Give me some truth : a novel with paintings
by Eric L Gansworth
In 1980 life is hard on the Tuscarora Reservation in upstate New York, and most of the teenagers feel like they are going nowhere: Carson Mastick dreams of forming a rock band, and Maggi Bokoni longs to create her own conceptual artwork instead of the traditional beadwork that her family sells to tourists--but tensions are rising between the reservation and the surrounding communities, and somehow in the confusion of politics and growing up Carson and Maggi have to make a place for themselves
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If I ever get out of here : a novel with paintings
by Eric L. Gansworth
Seventh-grader Lewis "Shoe" Blake from the Tuscarora Reservation has a new friend, George Haddonfield from the local Air Force base, but in 1975 upstate New York there is a lot of tension and hatred between Native Americans and Whites—and Lewis is not sure that he can rely on friendship.
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Fat kid rules the world
by Kelly Going
When he finds his former classmate, Troy, standing on a subway platform contemplating suicide, Curt takes action and a strange friendship develops between the two where soon Troy is recruited to be the drummer for Curt’s new punk rock band, in an amusing tale of an unlikely friendship.
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Wintersong
by S. Jae-Jones
After her sister is kidnapped by the Goblin King, Liesl journeys to the Underground and is faced with an impossible decision when she finds herself captivated by the strange world and its mysterious ruler.
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The Disenchantments
by Nina LaCour
Colby's post-high school plans have long been that he and his best friend Beth would tour with her band then spend a year in Europe, but when she announces that she will start college just after the tour, Colby struggles to understand why she changed her mind and what losing her means for his future.
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Open road summer
by Emery Lord
Seventeen-year-old Reagan tries to escape heartbreak and a bad reputation by going on tour with her country superstar best friend. Unfortunately she only finds more trouble as she falls for the sweet guy hired to pose as the singer's boyfriend.
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The Victoria in my head
by Janelle Milanes
An insecure, straitlaced student with overprotective parents fantasizes about a life where she is a confident rock star until a chance encounter with an attractive musician tempts her to turn her daydreams into reality.
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Girl
by Blake Nelson
An account of three years in a teenage girl's life as she forges an identity between two contrasting worlds--her straight-laced school and Portland's underground music scene.
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The sky is everywhere
by Jandy Nelson
In the months after her sister dies, seventeen-year-old Lennie falls into a love triangle and discovers the strength to follow her dream of becoming a musician.
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Rani Patel in full effect
by Sonia Patel
Rani Patel, almost seventeen and living on remote Moloka'i island, is oppressed by the cultural norms of her Gujarati immigrant parents but when Mark, an older man, draws her into new experiences, red flags abound.
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King Dork
by Frank Portman
After stumbling upon one of his father's old books, hints and clues are revealed to a secret past that may lead to answers regarding his father's life and mysterious death.
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Tone deaf
by Olivia Rivers
Ali Collins was a child piano prodigy until a brain tumor caused her to lose her hearing, and now, after meeting Jace, the lead singer of Tone Deaf, her musical and romantic possibilities increase.
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Eleanor & Park
by Rainbow Rowell
A first young adult novel by the author of Attachments follows the year-long, star-crossed romance between two 1980s high school misfits whose intelligence tells them that first loves almost never last but whose feelings prevent them from remaining as practical.
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This savage song
by Victoria Schwab
As the heirs to opposing sides in a warring city, Kate Harker and Augustus Flynn should never have met, but instead find themselves having to choose between friendship and enmity at the risk of their city's future.
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Drums, girls, + dangerous pie
by Jordan Sonnenblick
The life of eighth-grader Steven Alper, already complicated by his friendship with two girls and a prodigious talent for drumming, is turned upside down when his five-year-old brother Jeffrey is diagnosed with leukemia.
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After Tupac and D Foster
by Jacqueline Woodson
In the New York City borough of Queens in 1996, three girls bond over their shared love of Tupac Shakur's music, as together they try to make sense of the unpredictable world in which they live.
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Behind the song
by K. M. Walton
An anthology of stories and personal essays exploring how music inspires creativity and can change one's life, written by award-winning young adult authors and contemporary musicians.
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Sounds like me : my life (so far) in song
by Sara Bareilles
The five-time Grammy Award-nominated and multi-platinum music artist presents a series of confessional writings about the searches for growth, healing and self-acceptance behind some of her most popular songs.
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Your lie in April. 1
by Naoshi Arakawa
Abandoning the piano following his mother's death, prodigy Kosei Arima's world becomes colorless and bland until violinist Kaori Miyazono arrives in his life.
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Josie and the Pussycats. Volume one
by Marguerite Bennett
With dreams of musical fame, Josie and the girls get the band back together, but the scheming Alexandra Cabot will put the girl's friendship to the ultimate test.
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Kicking and screaming : Kicking and Screaming
by Brenden Fletcher
"Dinah Lance hits the road! After years as a soldier and vigilante, the last place Dinah saw herself is on stage... but she's quickly learning she'd die to protect the gang of misfits she's fallen into. And she just might have to--for some reason, the newly rechristened band Black Canary seems to be a magnet for trouble... and Dinah's not gonna believe it when she finds out the reason why!
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Anonymous noise. 1
by Ryōko Fukuyama
When Nino Arisugawa, a girl who loves to sing, is parted from her two beloved friends, Yuzu and Momo, both boys promise to find her one day through her singing, and now in high school, Nino reunites with Yuzu, but she still yearns to see Momo again.
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All Summer Long
by Hope Larson
Thirteen-year-old Bina has a long summer ahead of her. She and her best friend, Austin, usually do everything together, but he's off to soccer camp for a month, and he's been acting kind of weird lately anyway. So it's up to Bina to see how much fun she can have on her own. A touching and funny coming-of-age story.
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