Broken Chords by Barbara Snow
Gilbert Front Street, c1998
While practicing relentlessly for an important competition, seventeen-year-old Clara wonders if she has the dedication to pursue a career as a concert pianist.
YA FICTION GIL
Boots and the Seven Leaguers: A Rock-and-Troll Novel by Jane Yolen
Magic Carpet Books, 2003
Teen troll Gog and his best friend Pook work as roadies for a troll rock and roll band until Gog's younger brother gets kidnapped.
PB YT FICTION YOL
Cherokee Bat and the Goat Guys by Francesca Lia Block
HarperCollins Publishers, c1992
With their parents away, four young people form a rock band that becomes wildly popular, carrying them into a "freer" life than they can cope with.
YA FICTION BLO
Do Angels Sing the Blues? by A.C. LeMieux
Avon Flare Books, 1996
Members of a blues band deal not only with a mysterious new member but also the changes that arise with her actions.
PB YT FICTION LEM
Dragondrums by Anne McCaffrey
Atheneum, 1979
When his boy soprano voice begins to change, Piemur is drafted by Masterharper Robinton to help with political work and is sent on missions that lead him into unusual and sometimes dangerous adventures.
PB YA SCI.FI FANTASY MCC
Facing the Music by Margaret Willey
Laurel-Leaf books, 1997
Through her love of music and membership in her brother's band, sixteen-year-old Lisa learns to deal with her feelings of abandonment following her mother's death.
PB YT FICTION WIL
Fat Kid Rules the World by K.L. Going
G.P. Putnam's Sons, c2003
Seventeen-year-old Troy, depressed, suicidal, and weighing nearly 300 pounds, gets a new perspective on life when a homeless teenager who is a genius on guitar wants Troy to be the drummer in his rock band.
YA FICTION GOI
Guitar Girl by Sarra Manning
Dutton Children's Books, 2003
Seventeen-year-old Molly Montgomery and her friends start a band to have fun. But when the group is joined by charismatic bad-boy Dean, things onstage and backstage start happening, fast.
YA FICTION MAN
Orfe by Cynthia Voigt
Atheneum, c1992
Enny tells of her relationship with Orfe, an unusually talented musician, and of the love between Orfe and Yuri, a recovering addict.
YT FICTION VOI
Resurrection Blues by Mike Tanner
Annick Press, c2005
Flynn Robinson's decision to drop out of grade 12 to join a top local club band doesn't please anyone else, and other choices he has to make are difficult and lead to moral dilemmas.
YA FICTION TAN
Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life by Bryan Lee O'Malley
Oni Press, 2004
Scott Pilgrim is 23 years old, in a rock band, between jobs, and dating a cute high school girl. Everything's awesome until a seriously mind-blowing delivery girl named Ramona Flowers enters his life.
YA FICTION OMA
She's Got the Beat by Nancy E. Krulik
Simon Pulse, 2005
When she moves to Austin, Texas, quiet Miranda breaks out of her small-town shell by learning to play drums. At a gig, she meets a cute bass player, who isn't exactly looking for love. Can this rocker chick change his tune?
PB YA FICTION KRU
Song Reader by Lisa Tucker
Downtown Press, 2005
Mary Beth and her younger sister Leeann are trying to support themselves in their small Southern hometown. Mary Beth works to make ends meet by practicing her own unique talent: "song reading" – making sense of the song lyrics people have stuck in their heads.
PB FICTION TUC
This Lullaby by Sarah Dessen
Viking, c2002
Raised by a mother who's had five husbands, eighteen-year-old Remy believes in short-term, no-commitment relationships until she meets Dexter, a rock band musician.
YA FICTION DES
Tribute to Another Dead Rock Star by Randy Powell
Farrar Straus Giroux, c1999
For a tribute to his mother, a dead rock star, fifteen-year-old Grady returns to Seattle, where he faces his mixed feelings for his retarded younger half-brother Louie while pondering his own future.
YA FICTION POW
Also check out:
The Gigs Handbook: A Beginner's Guide to Playing Professionally by Sharon Black
Benny Publishing, c2000
The basic Gigs 101. Everything you need to know to perform and make money, including tips on practicing, making contacts, programming, auditioning, and arranging payments.
780.2 BLA
Grown Up All Wrong: 75 Great Rock and Pop Artists from Vaudeville to Techno by Robert Christgau
Harvard University Press, c1998
A critical compendium of points of interest in American popular music and its far-flung diaspora, this book ranges from the 1950s singer-songwriter tradition through hip-hop, alternative, and beyond.
781.66 CHR
Sound of the Beast: The Complete Headbanging History of Heavy Metal by Ian Christe
HarperEntertainment, 2004
In this first-ever atlas of the heavy metal phenomenon, Ian Christe delivers a bird's-eye view of this dark and forbidden music. The ultimate headbanger history.
781.66 CHR
