Author : Josie Bloss
Publisher : Llewellyn Worldwide
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 39,87 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0738713589
The marching band is high school senior Ellie Snow's all-consuming passion until she finds herself in a secret romance with a handsome sophomore.
Author : Katherine Dunn
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 48,3 MB
Release : 2011-05-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0307794482
National Book Award Finalist • Here is the unforgettable story of the Binewskis, a circus-geek family whose matriarch and patriarch have bred their own exhibit of human oddities—with the help of amphetamines, arsenic, and radioisotopes. One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years Their offspring include Arturo the Aquaboy, who has flippers for limbs and a megalomaniac ambition worthy of Genghis Khan . . . Iphy and Elly, the lissome Siamese twins . . . albino hunchback Oly, and the outwardly normal Chick, whose mysterious gifts make him the family’s most precious—and dangerous—asset. As the Binewskis take their act across the backwaters of the U.S., inspiring fanatical devotion and murderous revulsion; as its members conduct their own Machiavellian version of sibling rivalry, Geek Love throws its sulfurous light on our notions of the freakish and the normal, the beautiful and the ugly, the holy and the obscene. Family values will never be the same.
Author : Erin Dionne
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 27,43 MB
Release : 2011-09-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1101529407
From the author of Models Don’t Eat Chocolate Cookies comes a middle grade novel hailed by Linda Urban as “A perfect blend of laugh out loud funny and real-world heart.” Elsie Wyatt wants to be an orchestra superstar, like her dad and grandfather. The first step? Get into a super-selective summer music camp. In order to qualify, Elsie must “expand her musical horizons” by joining her high school’s marching band. Not only does this mean wearing a plumed hat and polyester pants, but it also means she can’t play her own instrument, can’t sit down, and can’t seem to say the right thing to anyone…let alone Jake, the cute trumpet player she meets on the first day. Plus, everything she does seems to cause a disaster. Surviving marching band is going to be way harder than Elsie thought. For fans of funny, realistic, every-girl novels like Wendy Mass’s 13 Gifts and Lisa Greenwald’s My Life in Pink & Green. “It has humor, heart, and a touch of romance that will provide ample fodder for booktalks.”—School Library Journal “Marching-band kids everywhere will enjoy this believable celebration of a life-changing, musical rite of passage.”—Kirkus
Author : Michelle Schusterman
Publisher : Grosset & Dunlap
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 35,81 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0448456834
The word "heart" in the title and series statement appears as the heart symbol.
Author : Holly Black
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 26,18 MB
Release : 2009-08-01
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 0316052620
Acclaimed authors Holly Black (Ironside)and Cecil Castellucci (Boy Proof) have united in geekdom to edit short stories from some of the best selling and most promising geeks in young adult literature: M.T. Anderson, Libba Bray, Cassandra Clare, John Green, Tracy Lynn, Cynthia and Greg Leitich Smith, David Levithan, Kelly Link, Barry Lyga, Wendy Mass, Garth Nix, Scott Westerfield, Lisa Yee, and Sara Zarr. With illustrated interstitials from comic book artists Hope Larson and Bryan Lee O'Malley, Geektastic covers all things geeky, from Klingons and Jedi Knights to fan fiction, theater geeks, and cosplayers. Whether you're a former, current, or future geek, or if you just want to get in touch with your inner geek, Geektastic will help you get your geek on!
Author : Cassie Mae
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 23,85 MB
Release : 2014
Category : High school students
ISBN : 9781625173843
Sierra Livingston's got it bad for her sister's best friend, Levi Mason, the boy who carries his drumsticks in his pocket, marches with the school's band, and taps his feet to whatever beat runs through his head. Sierra racks her brain for ways to impress the sexy drummer, but the short skirts and bursting cleavage don't seem to cut it. When Sierra gets paired with Levi's sister, Brea, for a mentorship program, they strike a deal. In exchange for Sierra keeping her mouth shut about Brea ditching the program, Brea lets Sierra dig for more info on Levi to help get the guy of her dreams. But when Sierra discovers Levi no longer plays the drums, his family has moved into a trailer, and he's traded in his Range Rover for a baby blue moped, Sierra's not sure if she can go through with violating his privacy. She'll have to find the courage to ask him straight out, if he's willing to let her in, and explore other ways to seduce the school's band geek.
Author : Rae Earl
Publisher :
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 45,59 MB
Release : 2014-06
Category : Diaries
ISBN : 9781406340020
This is the year Hattie wants to find real FULL ON love. No more McFitties, but real, long-term love. And she thinks she knows who with. His mum may still call him Goosey Woosey and he might have an unnatural interest in doing well in his GCSEs, but Goose could actually be THE ONE But how can Hattie make him realize this, when he seems more interested in his gecko? And there's the other matter of her dad, who seems to be more interested in saving the planet than in his new-found daughter. And there's also Gran, who has a new iPad and a dangerous obsession with Twitter.
Author : Josie Bloss
Publisher : North Star Editions, Inc.
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 15,50 MB
Release : 2011-11-08
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 0738732664
After a humiliating “sexting” incident, seventeen-year-old Dylan becomes a social outcast. Once she finds the blogs of home-schooled fundamentalist Christian girls, Dylan becomes fascinated by their old-fashioned beliefs. Blogging as Faith, her devout alter ego, Dylan grows close to Abigail, the group’s queen bee.
Author : Josie Bloss
Publisher : Llewellyn Worldwide
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 43,25 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0738714763
A new student develops a destructive crush on a musician in love with the mysterious and alluring "albatross" around his neck.
Author : Marianne Martens
Publisher : Springer
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 34,44 MB
Release : 2016-06-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1137514469
This book demonstrates how the roles of “author,” “marketer,” and “reviewer” are being redefined, as online environments enable new means for young adults to participate in the books they love. Prior to the expansion of digital technologies around reading, teachers, parents and librarians were the primary gatekeepers responsible for getting books into the hands of young people. Now publishers can create disintermediated digital enclosures in which they can communicate directly with their reading audience. This book exposes how teens contribute their immaterial and affective labor as they engage in participatory reading experiences via publishers’ and authors’ interactive websites and use of social media, and how in turn publishers are able to use such labor as they get invaluable market research, peer-to-peer recommendations, and even content which can be used in other projects all virtually free-of-charge.
