Already, books about music are becoming more and more popular. Honestly, that makes sense because when I was a teenager (and even now in my twenties) music matters a lot. it makes us feel stronger emotions, positive or negative, and can inspire us to want something better for ourselves.
These 41 books on music aim to achieve the same things. the outstanding adolescent protagonists for whom music is the center of life. These kids are career singers, aspiring singers, or just have a lot of music in their souls.
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I have included books with music from a variety of genres. so whether you’re into country, rap, hip-hop, classical, rock, or pop, I’ve got you covered. I have checked off everything on the list that I have read and loved. I’ve chosen the others based on recommendations and goodreads reviews from my trusted circle of readers!
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music books for young adults
On the Come Up
Published: February 5, 2019
Sixteen-year-old Bri wants to be one of the greatest female rappers of all time. or at least get out of her neighborhood one day. As the daughter of an underground rap legend who died before making it big, Bri has big shoes to fill.
But now that her mother has unexpectedly lost her job, food banks and closing notices are as much a part of Bri’s life as rhythms and rhymes. With bills piling up and homelessness staring at her family, Bri no longer just wants to survive, she has to.
kill the boy band
Published: March 28, 2017
Know from the start that it wasn’t supposed to be this way. all we wanted was to get close to them. so we got a room at the hotel where they were staying.
We weren’t planning on kidnapping one of them. especially not the most useless. but we had him: his room key, his cell phone, and his secrets.
We weren’t planning what would happen next.
We swear.
somewhere only we know
Published: May 7, 2019
Sparks fly between a K-pop star and a tabloid reporter in this heartwarming romantic comedy from Maurene Goo.
10:00 PM m.: lucky is the biggest k-pop star on the scene, and he just performed his hit song “heartbeat” in hong kong for thousands of fans. she’s about to make her debut on tonight’s show in the states, hopefully a career highlight for her. but right now? she’s in her fancy hotel, trying to fall asleep but dying for a burger.
11:00 PM m .: jack is sneaking into a fancy hotel, on an assignment for his tabloid job hiding his parents from him. Leaving the hotel, he meets a girl in slippers, a girl determined to find a hamburger. she looks a bit familiar. she is very cute maybe she is curious.
12:00 AM m.: nothing will ever be the same.
good enough
Published: February 5, 2008
Paula Yoo scores big in her hilarious debut novel about an achiever who longs to fit in and strives to stand out. the pressure is on!
how to make your Korean parents happy:
1. get a perfect score on the sats.2. enter harvardyaleprinceton.3. don’t talk to boys.*
patti’s parents expect nothing less than the best from their korean-american daughter. everything she makes of herself affects her chances of getting into an ivy league school. therefore, winning as assistant concertmaster at her state violin competition and winning less than 2300 at her sats just isn’t good enough.
but patti is discovering that there is more to life than the ivy league. to start with, there is a cute trumpeter. he’s funny, he’s talented, and he looks exactly like the lead singer of patti’s favorite band. then of course there is his love of the violin. Not to mention the cool rock concerts. and anyway, what if patti doesn’t want to go to harvardyaleprinceton after all?
*boys will distract you from your studies.
beige
Published: May 8, 2007
Exiled from Canada to Los Angeles, Katy can’t believe she’s spending the summer under her father’s punk name: The Rat, a recovered addict and drummer for the band Suck. Despite the fact that Katy feels abandoned by her mother, despite the fact that the rat’s place is a mess and he doesn’t look like anything she could call a father, Kathy won’t make a fuss. after all, she is a calm and polite girl, a girl who smiles, a girl who is, well, beige. or is it her?
when the pace slows down
Published: May 15, 2018
Look, seventeen years old, he’s always danced to his own beat. a music prodigy in a family of athletes, he’d rather play the trumpet than play ball, and with his audition for a prestigious jazz conservatory just around the corner (and his two best friends at music camp without her ), plans to spend the rest of the year. summer focused on jazz and nothing else.
She only goes to the warehouse party in a last ditch effort to bond with her older sister. Instead, she falls in love with dance music, DJing… and Derek, a terrific promoter who thinks he can make her a star. suddenly trumpet practice and old friendships take a backseat to packed dance floors and sun-kissed music festivals, outsized personalities and never-ending beats.
But when a devastating tragedy plunges her golden summer into darkness, Mira discovers how little she knows about her new boyfriend, her old friends, and even her own sister. the music brought them together. will it destroy them too?
grace and fever
Published: May 16, 2017
In high school, everyone was a fan of fever dreams. Now, a few weeks after graduating from high school, Grace Thomas sometimes feels like the only one who never moved on. she can’t imagine what she would do without the online community of fans who share her obsession. or what her friends would say if they ever found out.
Then one summer night, the unthinkable happens: Grace meets her idol, Jes. what begins as an elusive glimpse into the world of feverish dreams turns into an unlikely romance and leads her to confront dark and complex truths about herself and the realities of stardom.
let me hear a rhyme
Published: May 21, 2019
brooklyn, 1998. biggie smalls was right: things changed. But that doesn’t mean Quadir and Jarrell are comfortable letting their best friend Steph’s music lie forgotten under his bed after he’s murdered, not when his rhymes could turn any corner of the bed into a party.
with the help of steph’s younger sister, jasmine, they came up with a plan to promote steph’s music under a new rap name: the architect. soon, everyone wants a piece of him. When their demo catches the eye of a brash record label rep, the trio must prove Steph’s talents from beyond the grave.
As the pressure to keep their secret mounts, Quadir, Jarrell and Jasmine are forced to confront the truth about what happened to Steph. just that everyone has something to hide. And since everything hinges on Steph’s fame, they must decide what they stand for or they’ll lose everything they’ve worked so hard to hold on to, including themselves
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Published: January 29, 2019
When rising star Paris Secord (aka DJ Parsec) is found dead at his turntables, the local music scene is reeling. No one feels that pain more than her spurned pre-fame best friend, Kya, and Parsec’s main follower, Fuse, two sworn enemies who happen to be the ones who discovered her body.
Police have few leads, and when the trail quickly fades, authorities don’t seem to push too hard to investigate further. But no one counted on the deeply loyal fans of Paris, the Parsec nation, or the outrage that would drive Fuse and Kya to work together. As the Parsec Nation take to social media and the streets in their quest for justice, Fuse and Kya begin digging into Paris’ past, stumbling upon a deadly secret. With new information comes new reasons. new suspects. and a fandom that will stop at nothing in its obsessive search for answers, not even murder…
night music
Published: March 19, 2019
ruby has always been ruby chertok: future classical pianist and daughter of renowned composer martin chertok. but after her harrowing audition for the prestigious music school where her father is a teacher, it’s clear her music has publicly left her. now she ruby is suddenly alone. . . Ruby. and who is that again? all she knows is that she wants to get away from the world of classical music forever.
oscar is a child prodigy, a musical genius. just ask any of the 1.8 million people who have seen him direct on youtube, or just ask oscar. But while he might be the type to name himself when asked about his favorite songwriter and somehow make you love him more for it, Oscar isn’t the type to jeopardize his chance to study with the great martin chertok, not because of a crush. he is well aware of how the ultra-privileged world of classical music could play a black man like him who falls in love with the white daughter of his benefactor.
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But as New York City’s summer heats up, so does the spark between Ruby and Oscar. soon their connection crackles with the same living, irrepressible energy as the city itself. Can two people who are still imagining themselves figure out how to be together? Or will the world make the decision for them?
perfect harmony
Published: September 25, 2018
this was not in the score. Pippa Wyndham, 17, is one of the world’s greatest cellists and never settles for a second chair. But she faces stiff competition from the cocky Declan Brogan, a transfer student who equals her in ambition and talent. forced to form a duo, the battle heats up. But as the recital draws near and her rivalry evolves, Pippa risks losing her best friend, her future friend, and the boy she’s falling in love with.
rotate
Published: August 10, 2019
fifteen-year-old delilah “dizzy” doucette lives with her father and brother above their vintage record store, the vinyl trap. she’s learning how to spin records from her brother’s best friend, and she’s getting pretty good at it.
but behind his bohemian life, dizzy and his family have a secret: his mom is the mega-famous singer georgia waters. When this secret is revealed to the world, Dizzy’s life spirals out of control. she must decide what is more important to her: the family she has or the family she wants.
born to rock
Published: April 1, 2006
leo caraway, high school senior, president of the young republican club, 4.0 gpa, future harvard student, had his entire future planned out perfectly. that was, up to the x factor. as in marion x. mcmurphy, aka king maggot, the lead singer of purge, the most popular and destructive punk rock band he has ever seen. He is also Leo’s biological father.
When Leo finds out his real father is a punk rock legend, he’s upset. Not only is Leo not a fan of punk rock, he believes that the X-Factor (the worm blood that runs through his veins) is a dangerous time bomb waiting to explode. And he does: Leo stubbornly sticks up for the most unlikely people, so he falsely accuses himself of cheating on a test.
Because of the blemish on his record, the once-star student finds out his scholarship to harvard is being taken away. she so she hatches the crazy plan to go on tour with king maggot for the purge summer revival tour, while she secretly hopes to convince maggot to pay her tuition. But life on the road is even crazier than Leo expected, and before the summer is over, he’ll finally discover the shocking truth about his father, his friends, and most importantly himself.
sing
Published: May 31, 2016
In this irresistible beachy read, perfect for fans of Jenny Han and Zoella’s girl online, America’s favorite pop goddess flees the spotlight to Maine to recover from her latest breakup. only to fall head over heels for a down-to-earth local boy and be faced with an impossible choice: he or she is music.
After having her heart broken for the umpteenth time, multi-platinum pop icon Lily Ross is escaping her crazy, high-profile life and heading to an island in the middle of nowhere, Maine, with her best friends. . she has three months to focus on herself, her music, her new album, anything but boys. this summer is going to be different.
that’s it. . . Until Lily meets sweet and charming Noel Bradley, who is so unlike anyone she’s ever dated. Suddenly, Lily’s “summer of me” takes an unexpected turn and she finds herself falling deeper and harder than ever. But even though Lily loves Noel, she also loves his music and her fans. And come August, when it’s time to leave Maine and hit the road again, she’ll be forced to choose between them.
fireworks
Published: April 11, 2017
was always meant to be olivia. she is the talented one, the one who has been training to be a star all her life. Her best friend, Dana, is the sensible one, always on the sidelines, cheering Olivia on.
But everything changes when Dana accompanies Olivia to Orlando for the weekend, where super producer Guy Monroe is holding auditions for a new singing group, and Dana is also discovered. Dana, who has never sung more than Olivia’s backup. Dana, who wasn’t even looking for fame. Next thing she knows, she and Olivia are training to be pop stars, and Dana is falling for Alex, the sincere and endlessly talented boy who is destined to be the next big thing.
It should be a dream come true, but as days of grueling practice and constant competition take their toll, things between Olivia and Dana begin to change. . . And there’s only room at the top for one girl. For Olivia, it’s her chance to make her dream come true. For Dana, it’s a chance to escape a future that seems to be closing in on her. And for these lifelong best friends, it’s the adventure of a lifetime, if they can top it.
midnights
Published: March 6, 2018
susannah hayes has never been in the spotlight, but she dreams of following her father, a former rock star, onstage. As she enters her senior year, she’s more interested in composing impressive chord progressions than college essays, certain that if she writes the perfect song, her father might finally look up from the past long enough to see her. But when he unexpectedly dies, her dreams and her reality are shattered.
While Susannah struggles with grief, her mother moves them to a new town. There, Ella Susannah realizes that she can reinvent herself however she wants: confident singer-songwriter, hip band member, effortlessly embraced by a best friend. But Susannah isn’t the only one keeping secrets, and soon, stark revelations threaten to turn her life upside down once again.
Set in the stunning landscape of Southern California, The Midnights is an evocative debut about loss, creativity, and finding your voice while still finding yourself
remarkable
Published: May 2, 2017
It’s the start of Jordan Sun’s junior year of high school at the Kensington-Blaine Performing Arts Boarding School. unfortunately, she’s a contralto 2, which, in the world of musical theater, is like being a vulture in the wild: she has a place in the ecosystem, but no one goes out of their way to express appreciation for her.
so it’s no surprise that she’s being left out of the fall musical for the third year in a row. But then the school gets a mass email: a spot has opened up in the Snipers, Kensington’s elite a cappella octet. adored. . revered. . All the men. Desperate to prove herself, Jordan shows up to auditions in the most convincing costume of hers, and it turns out Jordan Sun, Tenor 1, is exactly what the Treble is looking for.
audrey, wait
Published: April 10, 2008
California high school student Audrey Cuttler leaves selfish Evan, the lead singer of a small band called the Do-Gooders. evan writes, ?audrey, wait!? a breakup song that’s so good it’s skyrocketing up the charts. And audrey is suddenly famous!
now rabid fanatics are invading your school. people are posting articles about their arm warmers. the lolita singer wants her as her muse. (And the internet is documenting her every move!) Audrey can’t hang out with her best friend or be with her new crush without being hounded by fans and paparazzi.
goodbye to my old life
Published: July 4, 2006
As a talented singer and guitarist with dreams of becoming a professional, alegría montero is getting tired of the endless and boring parade of quinceañeras and other family parties. she yearns for something greater. and she hears my singing, a new reality show looking for the next Latino superstar, that’s definitely it. Ella Ali Ella thinks she’ll never make the cut, but the audition seems like a good way to get her overprotective father to take her ambitions seriously. To Ali’s total surprise, she passes her audition. Next thing she knows, she’s dealing with fittings, cameras, reporters, vocal coaches, and websites designed by adoring fans. she’s also dealing with jealousy, malice, and sabotage between the contestants, all of which make her wonder: is it really time to aim for the stars and try to win the entire competition, or is it time to say “cut”? and go back to being a normal teenager?
the disenchantments
Published: February 16, 2012
colby and bev have a longstanding pact: graduate, tour with bev’s band, then spend the year wandering europe. But moments after the tour begins, Bev makes a shocking announcement: She’s ditching her plans, and Colby’s, to start college in the fall.
but the show must go on and disenchantments roam the pacific northwest, playing small towns and dingy venues, as roadie-colby struggles to deal with bev’s ever-increasing distance and the biggest question of all: what? follow?
wild flower
Published: July 1, 2014
bird barrett has grown up on the road, singing in her family’s bluegrass band and performing everywhere from nashville, tennessee, to nowhere, oklahoma. But one fateful night, when the bird replaces his father singing solo, a scout in the audience offers him a spotlight of his own.
soon bird is thrown into a whirlwind of song writing meetings, recording sessions and music video shoots. His first single hits the top twenty and suddenly fans and paparazzi are around every corner. He even caught the eye of his lifelong crush, traveling musician Adam Dean. however, with the bird’s star rising, the rest of his life falls into chaos as tradition and ambition collide. Can the bird get ahead while staying true to its roots?
for the record
Published: November 10, 2015
chelsea thought she knew what it was like to be a rock star. . . until she became one. after losing a television talent show, he returned to the anonymity of a small town. but a phone call changed everything
She is now the lead singer of the band melbourne, performing at sold out clubs every night and living on a bus with three beautiful and talented guys. the bad thing is that the band hardly tolerates it. And when teenage heartthrob Lucas Rivers takes an interest in her, Chelsea suddenly becomes famous, taking Melbourne to the next level, not that they’re happy about it. her feelings for beckett, the bass player from melbourne, complicate her life even more.
chelsea only has the summer tour to make the band, and their fans, love her. if she doesn’t, she’ll go back to michigan for senior year and die a slow death. the paparazzi, the haters, the hectic schedule. . . Chelsea believed she could handle it. but what if she can’t?
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victory in my head
victoria cruz inhabits two worlds: in one, she’s a rock star, hitting the stage with her raspy voice and purple-streaked hair. In the other, which currently serves as reality, Victoria is a shy teenager with overprotective Cuban parents, who sleepwalks through her life at the prestigious Evanston Academy. Unable to get over the whole crippling stage fright thing, Victoria is content to live inside her fantasies, where nothing can go wrong and everything is set to her expertly crafted music playlists.
But after a chance encounter with an unattainably beautiful boy named Strand, whose band is looking for a lead singer, Victoria is tempted to turn her feverish dreams into reality. To do that, she must face her insecurities and break from the routine that is her life. Suddenly, Victoria is faced with the choice to stay on the path she’s always known and veer off course to find love, adventure and danger.
summer open road
After breaking up with her bad news boyfriend, Reagan O’Neill is ready to leave her rebellious ways behind. . . And her best friend, country superstar Lilah Montgomery, is taking care of her own broken heart. Luckily, lilah’s 24-city tour is about to kick off, offering a perfect opportunity for a girls-only summer of breakup ballads and healing hearts.
But when Matt Finch joins the tour as an opening act, his boy-next-door charm proves hard for Reagan to resist, despite his promise to live a drama-free existence. This summer, Reagan and Lilah will navigate the ups and downs of fame and friendship as they realize that giving your heart to the right person is always a risk worth taking.
this is how it feels
who cares that the sun city original contest prize is fifteen grand? no day, that’s for sure. because dia knows that without a band, he has no chance of winning. Because ever since Hanna’s drinking took over her life, Dia and Jules haven’t been at it. and because ever since hanna left, well, there hasn’t been a band.
It used to be the three of them, dia, jules and hanna, playing and making music and planning for the future. but that was then, and this is now, and now it means a baby, a failed relationship, a stint in rehab, all kinds of rhythms that have disrupted the rhythm of their friendship.
But like the lyrics to a song you used to play on repeat, you can’t forget a best friend. And for Dia, Jules, and Hanna, this impossible challenge (ignoring the past to power the future) will only be possible if they finally make peace with the girls they once were, and the girls they’re finally allowing. to be.
the bright ones
As a rock star drummer in the hit band Brightsiders, Emmy King’s life should be perfect. but there’s nothing the paparazzi love more than seeing a celebrity crash and burn. When a night out lands Emmy in the hospital, it’s called the ultimate tabloid train wreck.
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Luckily, Emmy has her friends and bandmates, including the super-stunning Alfie, to help her pick up the pieces of her life. she knows that getting involved with a gang member is exactly the kind of problem she should avoid, and yet emmy and alfie alone. hold. kissing.
Will the inevitable consequences turn it into a clickbait scandal (again)? Or will she find the strength to stand on her own?
I want to be where you are
mc creates an integral playlist for the plot of the book.
When Chloe Pierce’s mother forbids her from applying to the dance conservatory of her dreams, she devises a secret plan to drive two hundred miles to the nearest audition. But Chloe hits her first bump when her annoying neighbor Eli insists on hitchhiking, threatening to tell Chloe’s mom if she leaves him and her smelly old dog behind her. So now Chloe is chasing her ballet dreams down the East Coast: two unwanted (but kinda cute) passengers in her car, butterflies in her stomach, and a really cool playlist on repeat.
nickname & norah’s infinite playlist
nick haunts the new york indie rock scene with a broken heart. Norah is questioning all of his assumptions about the world. they have nothing in common except their taste in music, until a chance encounter leads them on an all-night quest to find a legendary band’s secret show and ends up becoming a first date that could change their lives. p>
here we are now
taliah sahar abdallat lives and breathes music. his songs have always helped ease the pain of never having met his father. His mother, born in Jordan and very secretive about her past, doesn’t say a word about who his father really was. But when he finds a shoebox full of old letters from Julian Oliver (yes, indie rock star Julian Oliver) he begins to piece the story together.
He writes to Julian, but after three years of silence on the radio, he has given up hope. Then one day, completely unexpected, Julian shows up at his door, and Tal doesn’t know whether to get mad or throw himself into his arms. Before she can decide, he asks her to go on a trip with him to meet her long-separated family and to say goodbye to her father, her grandfather, who is leaving. dying.
Getting to know your father after sixteen years of estrangement doesn’t happen in a single car ride. But as Tal spends more time with Julian and his family, she begins to unravel his parents’ secret past and discovers a part of herself she’s never recognized before.
only
blade never asked for a life of the rich and famous. In fact, he would give anything not to be the son of Rutherford Morrison, a failed rock star and junkie with comeback delusions. or stop being part of a family better known for lost potential, failure and tragedy, including the loss of his mother. the only true light is his girlfriend, hood, but his parents have forbidden their relationship, assuming that blade will become like his father.
In reality, the only thing blade and rutherford have in common is the music that lives within them. And songwriting is all Blade has left after Rutherford, while drunk, interrupts his high school commencement speech and effectively tears the chapel down for good. But when an old family secret comes to light, the music disappears. In its place is a letter, one that could either give Blade the freedom and love he’s been searching for, or leave him feeling even more adrift.
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this wild song
The first of two books, this wild song is a must-have for fans of Holly Black, Maggie Stiefvater, and Laini Taylor.
kate harker and august flynn are the heirs to a divided city, a city where violence has begun to spawn real monsters. all kate wants is to be as ruthless as her father, who lets monsters roam free and makes humans pay for her protection. all august wants is to be human, as kind as his own father, to play a bigger role in protecting the innocent, but he is one of the monsters. one that can steal a soul with a simple chord of music.
When the opportunity arises to keep an eye on Kate, who has just been kicked out of her sixth boarding school and has returned home, August goes for it. But Kate discovers August’s secret, and after a failed assassination attempt, the pair must flee for their lives.
looking for yvonne
since she was seven years old, yvonne has had her trusty violin to keep her company, especially in those lonely days after her mother abandoned her family. But with graduation just around the corner, she’s forced to face the harsh truth that she just might not be good enough to attend a conservatory after high school.
Filled with doubts about her future and increasingly frustrated by her strained relationship with her successful but emotionally closed father, Yvonne meets a street musician and fellow violinist who understands her struggle. he is mysterious, charming and different from warren, the familiar and trustworthy boy who has his heart. But when Yvonne unexpectedly becomes pregnant, she has to make the most difficult decision about her future.
passenger
On one devastating night, violin prodigy Etta Spencer loses everything she knows and loves. Pulled into an unknown world by a stranger with a dangerous agenda, etta is only sure of one thing: she has traveled not just miles, but years from home. and she has inherited a legacy she knows nothing about from a family she has never even heard of. so far.
Nicholas Carter is content with his life at sea, free from the ironwoods, a powerful family in the colonies, and the servitude he has known at their hands. But with the arrival of an unusual passenger on his ship comes the insistent pull of the past he can’t escape and the family that won’t let him go so easily. Now the Ironwoods are searching for a priceless stolen item, one they think only his passenger, etta, can find. To protect her, Nick must make sure she pays him back whether he wants it or not.
Together, etta and nicholas embark on a perilous journey across centuries and continents, piecing together clues left behind by the traveler who will do anything to keep the object out of reach of the iron clubs. But as they draw closer to the truth of their quest and the deadly game the Iron Clubs are playing, treacherous forces threaten to separate Etta not only from Nicholas, but also from her path home forever.
lucy variations
lucy beck-moreau once had a promising future as a concert pianist. now, at sixteen, she’s done. a death and a betrayal led her to distance herself from her. But without music in her life, Lucy isn’t sure who she is or who she wants to be. she then meets will, her brother’s new piano teacher, who is young, kind, and interested in helping lucy find her way back to the piano, not for an audience, but on her own terms. she.
dear evan hansen
When a letter that was never meant to be seen by anyone draws high school senior Evan Hansen into a family’s grief over the loss of their son, he is given the opportunity of a lifetime: to belong. He just has to stick to a lie he never intended to tell, that notoriously troublesome Connor Murphy was his secret best friend.
Suddenly, Evan is no longer invisible, even to the girl of his dreams. And Connor Murphy’s parents, with her beautiful home across town, have taken him in as their own, desperate to learn more about their enigmatic son from his closest friend. As Evan sinks deeper into his whirlwind of anger, regret, and confusion, he knows that what he’s doing can’t be right, but if he’s helping people, how wrong can it be?
No longer mired in the anxiety that once crippled him, this new Evan has a purpose. and a website. he’s confident is a viral phenomenon. every day is amazing. until everything is in danger of falling apart and he comes face to face with his biggest obstacle: himself.
A simple lie leads to complicated truths in this great story of grief, authenticity, and struggle to belong in an age of instant connectivity and profound isolation.
dj on the rise
Meet Marley, an unassuming high school student who breathes music like oxygen. Between taking care of his heroin-addicted mother and keeping her scholarship to a posh prep school, he dreams of becoming a professional DJ.
When chance lands Marley his first real DJ job, his career as “DJ Ice” suddenly soars. But when a harrowing disaster at home sends Marley crashing back to earth, she is torn between duty and following his dreams.
this song will save your life
making friends has never been elise dembowski’s strong point. throughout his life, he has been the butt of every joke and misses her in every conversation. When one last attempt at popularity fails, Elise almost gives up.
then she stumbles upon a warehouse party where she meets vicky, a girl from a gang who takes her in; char, a cute but mysterious disc jockey; pippa, a carefree spirit from england; and most importantly, a love of DJing.
Told in a funny, refreshingly genuine, laugh-out-loud voice, this song by Leila Sales will save your life. together.
would you be mine
Annie Mathers is America’s sweetheart and heir to a country music legacy filled with all the things her grandmother warned her about. superstar clay coolidge will definitely end up being one of those things.
but unfortunately for clay, if he can’t convince annie to join his summer tour, his record label will drop him. that’s what happens when your bad boy image becomes a bad boy reality. annie has been avoiding the spotlight after the tragic death of his parents, except for her youtube channel which has skyrocketed. Clay’s label wants to get Annie, and Clay has to make it happen.
Influenced by Clay’s undeniable charm and good looks, Annie and her band agree to join the tour. From the start, fans want them to be more than tour buddies, and Annie and Clay can’t help but wonder if the fans are right. But if there’s one part of fame that Annie wants nothing to do with, it’s a high-profile relationship. she had a front row seat to her parents’ volatile marriage and isn’t interested in repeating history. If only she could convince her heart that Clay, with her painful past and her insanely induced tenor, isn’t worth the risk.
famous in a small town
for sophie, small town life has never felt small. With four best friends of hers, loving, infuriating and everything she could ask for, she can weather any storm. But when Sophie’s beloved Acadia High School marching band is selected to march in the upcoming Rose Parade, it’s her job to get them all the way to Los Angeles. your plan? to persuade country singer Megan Pleasure, her Midwestern town’s only claim to fame, to return to Acadia to headline a fundraising festival.
The only problem is that Megan has publicly sworn never to return.
What follows is a journey filled with long-kept secrets, hidden heartbreaks, and revelations that could change everything, along with a possible fifth best friend: a new guy with a magnetic smile and secrets of his own.
can’t beat chemistry
Ionic and covalent bonds are a piece of cake for mj. but human ties are a bit more difficult…
There are only two things mj wants in his senior year of high school:
1) brilliant ratings and…
2) To convince super-smart, chiseled-jawed Jason that they’d be a winning team both in and out of the science lab.
Taking private lessons to the drummer, luke, is not part of the plan. after all, he has average intelligence, takes disorganized notes, and looks like a party zombie in his study sessions. Not even his tight biceps will win over MJ.
but mj learns that he could also be tutored in some life lessons: that sometimes there are good reasons to skip chemistry tutorials. that intelligence is much more than a grade point average.
and that sometimes you just can’t beat chemistry.
echo
Lost and alone in a forbidden forest, Otto meets three mysterious sisters and is suddenly thrust into a perplexing quest involving a prophecy, a promise, and a harmonica.
decades later, friedrich in germany, mike in pennsylvania, and ivy in california, each, in turn, are intertwined as the same harmonica lands in their lives. all children face enormous challenges: rescuing a father, protecting a brother, keeping the family together. and finally, pulled by the invisible thread of fate, his suspenseful solo stories converge in an orchestral crescendo.
Deeply imagined and masterfully crafted, this passionate, uplifting and virtuosic tour de force will resonate in your heart long after the last note has been struck.
there they are: 41 of the best books on music! I loved making this list and may have purchased more than one of these selections. Of course, although music is a central theme in these books, they tackle a multitude of other teenage topics. I’d love to know what you think if you read any of these!
what are your favorite books about music? Have you read any of this list? I’d love to know!
