So Punk
Rock (and Other Ways to Disappoint Your Mother) by Micol
Ostow (F OST)
Four suburban New Jersey students from the Leo R. Gittleman Jewish
Day School form a rock band that becomes inexplicably popular,
creating exhiliration, friction, confrontation, and soul-searching
among its members.
The Disenchantments by Nina LaCour (F LAC)
Colby and Bev have a long-standing pact: graduate, hit the road with
Bev's band, and then spend the year wandering around Europe. But
moments after the tour kicks off, Bev makes a shocking announcement:
she's abandoning their plans - and Colby - to start college in the
fall. But the show must go on and The Disenchantments weave
through the Pacific Northwest, playing in small towns and dingy
venues, while roadie- Colby struggles to deal with Bev's
already-growing distance and the most important question of all:
what's next?
Amplified by Tara Kelly (F KEL)
Privileged seventeen-year-old Jasmine Kiss, kicked out of her house
by her father, takes what is left of her meager savings and flees to
Santa Cruz, California, to pursue her dream of becoming a rock
musician.
The
House of Tomorrow by PeterBognanni(F BOG)
Sebastian Prendergast, having left the safety of the geodesic dome
in which he lived after his grandmother had a stroke, meets
sixteen-year-old Jared Whitcomb, and together the boys experience
the angst of being teenagers while forming a punk rock band, but
when Jared's grandma asks him to return to her home, he is faced
with choosing between her dying wish and his newfound life.
DJ
Rising by Love Maia(F MAI)
Meet Marley, an unassuming high school junior who breathes in music
like oxygen. In between caring for his heroin-addicted mother, and
keeping his scholarship at a fancy prep school, he dreams of
becoming a professional DJ. When chance lands Marley his first real
DJ job, his career as "DJ Ice" suddenly skyrockets. But when
heart-rending disaster at home brings Marley crashing back down to
earth, he is torn between obligation and following his dreams.
Rock
Star, Superstar by Blake Nelson (F NEL)
Music is Pete's life. From playing in a jazz band to jamming at 2 AM
with his guitar-playing dad, Pete is almost never without his bass.
He's sure his treasured Fender Precision bass, along with his vow
never to be a sell-out, will lead him to a record deal one day. Then
he meets the Carlisle brothers. They can't sing and they can barely
play their instruments, but somehow they have a following. And they
desperately need a bass player. Pete can play circles around these
amateurs, but there's a raw power to their sound that's surprisingly
appealing. He can't resist, and he joins The Tiny Masters of Today.
When the band gets a chance at real superstardom, Pete wonders if
he's ready for the big leagues. He knows the quality of the music
should come first . . . but who knew selling out could be so much
fun? Blake Nelson's riveting novel shows the realities of life in a
band, and all the temptations that come with it.
Struts
and Frets by Jon Skovron (F
SKO)
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--and his mother stays too busy to help.
Tempo
Change by Barbara Hall (F
HAL)
Sixteen-year-old Blanche forms a band that wins a spot at Coachella,
a southern California music festival, where she hopes to reconnect
with her father, a famous but reclusive musician who left when she
was six years old.
Band
Geek Love by Josie Bloss (F BLO)
All band, all the time. That's how marching band trumpet goddess
Ellie Snow has made it to senior year. She's a fierce section leader
now, and no boy is going to ruin Ellie's shining moment--her senior
solo performance at the homecoming game. And then Connor Higgins
shows up.
Guitar
Girl by Sarra Manning (F
MAN)
Seventeen-year-old Molly Montgomery learns the cost of fame when her
band, The Hormones, a group started with her friends just for fun,
suddenly becomes all the rage.
Somebody Everybody Listens To by
Suzanne Supplee (F SUP)
Upon graduating from high school in the tiny town of Starling,
Tennessee, aspiring country singer Retta Lee Jones manages to get
herself to Nashville, where, in spite of some bad luck and hard
times, she tries to persevere in pursuing her dreams.
The
Vinyl Princess by Yvonne Prinz (F PRI)
Allie, a sixteen-year-old who is obsessed with LPs, works at the
used record store on Telegraph Ave. and deals with crushes--her own
and her mother's--her increasingly popular blog and zine, and
generally grows up over the course of one summer in her hometown of
Berkeley, California.
Heavy
Metal and You by
Christopher Krovatin (F KRO)
High schooler Sam begins losing himself when he falls for a preppy
girl who wants him to give up getting wasted with his best friends
and even his passion for heavy metal music in order to become a
better person.
King
Dork by
Frank Portman (F POR)
Tom Henderson (a.k.a. King Dork) is a typical American high school
loser until he discovers the book, The Catcher in the Rye,
that will change the world as he knows it. When Tom discovers his
deceased father's copy of the Salinger classic, he finds himself in
the middle of several interlocking conspiracies and at least half a
dozen mysteries involving dead people, fake people, ESP, blood, a
secret code, guitars, monks, witchcraft, the Bible, girls, the
Crusades, and rock and roll. And it all looks like it s just the tip
of a very odd iceberg of clues that may very well unravel the puzzle
of his father's death and oddly reveal the secret to attracting
semi-hot girls. Being in a band could possibly be the secret to the
girl thing but good luck finding a drummer who can count to four.
Harlem
Hustle by
Janet McDonald (F MCD)
Eric "Hustle" Samson, a smart and street-wise seventeen-year-old
dropout from Harlem, aspires to rap stardom, a dream he naively
believes is about to come true.
Pop
Princess by
Rachel Cohn (F COH)
Yearning to escape the small Massachusetts town where her family
retreated after her sister's death, Wonder Blake gets her chance
when her sister's manager offers Wonder a record contract on her
sixteenth birthday.
A
Little Wanting Song by
Cath Crowley (F CRO)
Told in alternating voices and filled with music, friendship, and
romance, this novel is about a summer of friendship, romance, and
the kind of longing that begins as a heavy ache but ultimately makes
us feel hopeful and wonderfully alive.
Paradise by
Jill Alexander (F ALE)
Teenaged Paisley Tillery dreams a career as a professional drummer
will take her out of her small Texas town, but when her country rock
band gets a handsome new lead singer from Paradise, Texas, those
dreams may change.
The
Punk Ethic by
Timothy Decker (F DEC)
Martin Henry has been challenged by his teacher to make something of
himself and struggles to do so while also dealing with the changes
in his life that have been caused by his efforts.
Guitar
Notes by
Mary Amato (F AMA)
Tripp, who plays guitar only for himself, and Lyla, a cellist whose
talent has already made her famous but not happy, form an unlikely
friendship when they are forced to share a practice room at their
high school.
Nonfiction
Punk:
The Whole Story by
Mark Blake (781.66 PUN)
The definitive story of punk-the music, the culture, the icons-now
available in a compact paperback edition. Packed with interviews
from the pioneers of punk, a dazzling photo archive, and features on
the venues and memorabilia that helped define the generation, PUNK
takes you behind the scenes of rock's most irreverent genre.
Green
Day : American Idiots & the New Punk Explosion by
Ben Myers (782.42166 MYE)
Traces the history of the rock band Green Day, discussing the
members' difficult childhoods, influence from British punk bands,
career successes and disappointments, influence on American music,
and other related topics.
U2 by
U2 by
U2 (782.42166 U2)
In 1975, four
teenagers from Mount Temple School in Dublin gathered in a crowded
kitchen to discuss forming a band. More than thirty years later, the
band is still together, bound by intense loyalty, passionate
idealism, and a relentless belief in the power of rock and roll to
change the world. In an epic journey that has taken the band from
the clubs of Dublin to the stadiums of the world, U2 has sold more
than 130 million albums, revolutionized live performance,
spearheaded political campaigns, and made music that defines the age
in which we live. The members of the band chronicle the
group's history, describing the band's beginnings in high school,
their rise to fame, the making of their albums, aspects of their
personal lives, and other topics.
From
the Inside : Linkin Park's Meteora by
Steve Baltin (782.42166 BAL)
SoCal alt-metal sextet Linkin Park's first CD Hybrid Theory was the
record industry's biggest seller of 2002, with over 14 million
copies sold. The band's fusion of hip-hop, rock and electronic music
has attracted a diverse, dedicated following around the globe.
During their 2003-04 world tour to promote their latest
multi-platinum effort, Meteora, Linkin Park brought in photographer
Greg Waterman and others to document their experiences on and off
the stage.
A Long
Strange Trip: The Inside History of the Grateful Dead by
Dennis McNally (920 MCN)
Chronicles the history of the Grateful Dead from its beginnings in
1965 through 1995, providing an in-depth look at the band's members,
recordings, hit songs, conflicts, and the counterculture that
surrounded them.
A Hard
Day's Write: The Stories Behind Every Beatles Song by Steve
Turner (782.42166 TUR)
Presents a collection of stories that describe the inspiration
behind the Beatles songs on the Beatles twelve original albums as
well as those on the "Anthology" and "Live at the BBC".
Journals by Kurt Cobain (B COB)
Presents thoughts, lyrics, drawings, and letters that filled Nirvana
singer-songwriter Kurt Cobain's notebooks from the late 1980s to his
death in 1994.
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