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Books that Rock for Teens
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Amplified
by Tara Kelly
When privileged 17-year-old Jasmine Kiss gets kicked out of her house by her father, she takes what is left of her meager savings and flees to Santa Cruz, California, to pursue her dream of becoming a rock musician.
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Audrey, wait!
by Robin Benway
While trying to score a date with her cute co-worker at the Scooper Dooper, sixteen-year-old Audrey gains unwanted fame and celebrity status when her ex-boyfriend, a rock musician, records a breakup song about her that soars to the top of the Billboard charts
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Beautiful city of the dead : a novel
by Leander Watts
After joining a heavy metal band, high school student Zee learns that she is a god of water and is called upon to fight sinister forces that want her powers for their own. Reprint.
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Beige
by Cecil Castellucci
Katy, a quiet French Canadian teenager, reluctantly leaves Montréal to spend time with her estranged father, an aging Los Angeles punk rock legend.
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Being friends with boys
by Terra Elan McVoy
Living with stepsisters and having a bad history with female friends, Charlotte enjoys the easy relationships that come with managing an all-male band but things get complicated when dating becomes an issue, and she is urged to sing in public
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Born to rock
by Gordon Korman
When Leo Caraway, president of the Young Republicans Club, gets his scholarship to Harvard taken away, he turns to his real father, a lead singer in a punk rock band whom Leo has just recently learned is his father, in hopes that dad will pay for his tuition, but Leo's summer job as the band's roadie teaches him a lot about his dad, his friends, and himself.
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Candy
by Kevin Brooks
After falling deeply in love with a desperate, drug-taking girl named Candy, Joe’s life begins to fall apart as Candy’s mind games make an impact, yet Joe is unwilling to see his dreams of music die and so must find a way to get control back for himself while saving Candy from her self-destructive ways in the process.
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Debbie Harry sings in French
by Meagan Brothers
Having always been different from others and viewed as a freak for his unusual style and mascara-wearing ways, Johnny finds new inspiration in the female lead singer of a punk band, but not considering himself gay, Johnny begins to question his connection to Debbie Harry and wonder how his new glamorous look will be accepted by the girlfriend he loves.
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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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Fake ID : a novel
by Walter Sorrells
Having lived a life on the run with her mother since she was a baby, sixteen-year-old Chastity’s world is thrown into turmoil when her mother disappears and is presumed dead by authorities, yet knowing her mother’s past, Chastity isn’t so quick to believe she has been murdered and so, before being placed in a foster home for good, she begins a search for the truth to find out where her mother has gone.
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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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Five flavors of Dumb
by Antony John
Eighteen-year-old Piper becomes the manager for her classmates' popular rock band, called Dumb, giving her the chance to prove her capabilities to her parents and others, if only she can get the band members to get along
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The girl who became a Beatle
by Greg Taylor
Regina Bloomsbury, a sixteen-year-old, Beatles-obsessed rocker, takes a trip to an alternate reality where the Beatles never existed and her band, the Caverns, are the rock-and-roll superstars
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Guitar girl
by Sarra Manning
As her band, The Hormones, becomes an international sensation, seventeen-year-old Molly begins to question the high cost of fame
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I am (not) the walrus
by Ed. Briant
Longing for fame as the singer and bass player of a Beatles cover band, Toby is encouraged by a bandmate to explore his romantic prospects to gain credibility as a lovestruck artist, a situation that is challenged by a previous owner's claim on his old bass guitar.
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The Last Days
by Scott Westerfeld
When New York City is plagued by a bizarre epidemic and strange events, Pearl, Moz, and Zahler combine their talents with a vampire lead singer and a drummer who can foresee the coming darkness in hopes of staving off the apocalypse.
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Lemonade Mouth
by Mark Peter Hughes
A disparate group of high school students thrown together in detention form a band to play at a school talent show and end up competing with a wildly popular local rock band
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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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Rock god : the legend of B.J. Levine
by Barnabas Miller
After moving to New York City, thirteen-year-old B.J. Levine decides he is going to become the next big rock star despite his lack of musical ability
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Rock star superstar
by Blake Nelson
When Pete, a talented bass player, moves from playing in the high school jazz band to playing in a popular rock group, he finds the experience exhilarating even as his new fame jeopardizes his relationship with his girlfriend Margaret
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Rockoholic
by C. J. Skuse
Obsessively crushing on the front man of her favorite rock group, Jody excitedly attends a concert with her best friend only to suffer a concussion when things get out of control, prompting a visit by her idol and a wacky relationship that develops when she accidentally abducts him. By the author of Pretty Bad Things.
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She's got the beat
by Nancy E. Krulik
When she moves to Austin, Texas, small-town girl Miranda decides to reinvent herself and, learning how to play the drums with a vengeance, joins a band and falls for the gorgeous bass player who has no interest in rocker chicks
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Sister mischief
by L. Goode
Esme Rockett, also known as MC Ferocious, rocks her suburban Minnesota Christian high school with more than the hip-hop music she makes with best friends Marcy ( DJ SheStorm) and Tess (The ConTessa) when she develops feelings for her co-MC, Rowie (MC Rohini)
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6X : the uncensored confessions
by Nina Malkin
Four teens on the fast track to pop-rock superstardom--sweet and trusting Kendall, spoiled Wynn, no-nonsense Stella, and the boy A/B--reveal the uncensored truth about the glamorous, backstabbing world of sudden celebrity.
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Struts & frets
by Jon Skovron
Sammy wants to be a musician, as was his grandfather, but while the band he is in is self-destructing, Sammy is too distracted by his grandfather's decline and confused feelings about his best friend to fix it while his mother stays too busy to help.
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This lullaby : a novel
by Sarah Dessen
Remy, a girl who always knows how to end a relationship before it becomes emotional, meets her match in Dexter, a musician who embodies everything that she despises and reminds her of the father who abandoned her, when she finds that she cannot break up with him, in a wonderful story about following your heart. An ALA Best Book for Young Adults.
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Thunderbowl
by Lesley Choyce
Jeremy is spending most nights in a rowdy club, trying to keep the band together and while his life is falling apart, he is forced to make some tough choices
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Troll Bridge : A Rock 'n' Roll Fairy Tale
by Jane Yolen
Sixteen-year-old harpist prodigy Moira is transported to a strange and mystical wilderness, where she finds herself in the middle of a deadly struggle between a magical fox and a monstrous troll
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Where she went
by Gayle Forman
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
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Zero
by Tom Leeven
After graduating from a Phoenix, Arizona, high school, aspiring artist Amanda "Zero" Walsh unexpectedly begins a relationship with a drummer in a punk rock band, which helps her come to terms with her feelings about herself, her falling out with her best friend, and her parents' personal problems.
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