Vega, Denise
Summary: Adela loves everything about her family's mariachi band, and wants to be in it--but when she tries the different instruments nothing seems right, so she has to find a different way to become part of the band. Includes notes on mariachi music and bands.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge
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Summary: Esme suspects that the trouble brewing in Spring River has something to do with a new band that reeks of Red Magic.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC WILNorton, Preston
Summary: "After her sister runs away, teenager Hope Cassidy rebels against her conservative family by starting a rock band with her former crush, Danny, who is kicked out of his house when he comes out to his family"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: JIMMY Patterson Books, Little, Brown and Company 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NORSutter, James L.
Summary: When David quit his band, he missed his shot at fame. For the past two years he has been trapped in an ordinary Seattle high school life, working summers for his dad's construction business while his former best friends Chance and Eli became the hottest teen pop act in America. Eli's death throws David and Chance back into contact. They rediscover all the little things that once made the two of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wednesday Books 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SUTBhuiyan, Tashie
Summary: "Accidentally sabotaging an up-and-coming local band, music fanatic Liana Sarkar makes it her mission to secretly undo the damage she's caused, but when she falls for the lead singer, she finds it harder to hide the truth"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Inkyard Press 2024
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BHUElliott, Rebecca
Summary: When a band drops out of Battle of the Bands Eva and her friends decide to form a band of their own, and when a secret singer joins the chorus it really sounds good, but she flies away before anyone can identify her.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Branches/Scholastic, Inc. 2022
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1 available in Juvenile- Series, Call number: J Series Owl ElliottCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE ELLCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE ELLKinney, Jeff
Summary: When he decides to tag along with his brother Rodrick's band, Löded Diper, Greg doesn't realize what he's getting into. But he soon learns that late nights, unpaid gigs, fighting between band members, and money troubles are all part of the rock 'n' roll lifestyle. Can Greg help Löded Diper become the legends they think they are? Or will too much time with Rodrick's band be a diper överlöde?
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Summary: "In Diper Överlöde, book 17 of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series from #1 international bestselling author Jeff Kinney, Greg Heffley is finding out that the road to fame and glory comes with some hard knocks. When he decides to tag along with his brother Rodrick's band, Löded Diper, Greg doesn't realize what he's getting into. But he soon learns that late nights, unpaid gigs, fighting between band...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2022
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Summary: "Nikki and her bandmates are looking forward to an AWESOME summer on tour as the opening act for the world famous Bad Boyz! Nikki is a little worried when her frenemy, MacKenzie Hollister, weasels her way into a social media intern position with the tour. But she has a total MELTDOWN when she learns that MacKenzie is her new roommate! Will Nikki survive her dream tour as it quickly goes from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin, An imprint of Simon & schuster Children's Publishing Division 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC RUSDass, Sarah
Summary: "She's destined to be a great Trinidadian Carnival costume designer like her renowned uncle, Russel Messina, and will one day inherit leadership of the family's masquerade band, Grandeur. Her classmate, the popular social media influencer, Brandon Richards, is the bane of her existence. Everything about him irks her, from his annoying nickname for Tess ("Boop") to his association with David,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC DASSummary: Bink & Gollie : Two roller-skating best friends--one tiny, one tall--share three comical adventures involving outrageously bright socks, an impromptu trek to the Andes, and a most unlikely marvelous companion.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2014
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Summary: "Ty loves playing the instruments, but something's missing--his friends! With the help of his vivid imagination, Ty and his friends are onstage in a band making great music together!"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024
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1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN LYOMaker, Martha
Summary: After their teacher announces that there will be an upcoming talent show, eight-year-old Maddie and her best friends are inspired to form a band and use their craft skills to make their own instruments.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Simon 2018
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE MAKCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE MAKTorres, Jennifer
Summary: "Catalina can't wait for the upcoming school talent show! Along with some of her classmates, they decide to rock out and form a band for the big day. But Catalina has some...specific ideas on how the band should look and sound. Can Catalina learn to be part of the band, or will she find herself working on a solo act?"--Amazon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2022
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE TORMaddox, Jake
Summary: Once an inseparable trio, whether in their little band or on the football field, Justin, Tony, and Miles have drifted apart in middle school (Justin to band and his old friends to sports); now, after a summer of jamming, Justin decides to try out the football team with his old friends--but he finds little encouragement from them, and he misses the new friends he made in the school band.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2018
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Summary: A guitar-playing fish and his friends in a band called the Fry are eager to perform in a school concert but they all have the jitters, afraid something will go wrong.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Spotlight 2020
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1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR Green Yolen 2020Shaskan, Stephen
Summary: "Pizza and Taco have decided to start a band, now all they need is to find some instruments, bandmates, and write a song or two"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Children's Books 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J GRAPHIC PIZRussell, Rachel Renée
Summary: "Nikki Maxwell's summer is packed with drama in this fourteenth installment of the #1 New York Times bestselling Dork Diaries series! Nikki and her bandmates are looking forward to an AWESOME summer on tour as the opening act for the world famous Bad Boyz! Nikki is a little worried when her frenemy, MacKenzie Hollister, weasels her way into a social media intern position with the tour. But she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2019
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Summary: "Tallulah dreams of playing the tuba, but she's small and the tuba is very large. Everyone around her tells her to wait until she's bigger, but Tallulah can't wait--she just has to play the tuba in her school band.With determination and a lot of creativity, Tallulah hatches a plan that she hopes will turn her musical dream into reality."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Annick Press 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE STOPérez, Celia C.
Summary: Twelve-year-old María Luisa O'Neill-Morales (who really prefers to be called Malú) reluctantly moves with her Mexican-American mother to Chicago and starts seventh grade with a bang--violating the dress code with her punk rock aesthetic and spurning the middle school's most popular girl in favor of starting a band with a group of like-minded weirdos.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2017
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2 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC PERCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC PERCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: JFIC PERBrezenoff, Steven
Summary: After transferring from a private arts school to a public school, prodigy bass player Terence Kato sets out to build a rock band. Only one member remains at large: a DRUMMER. However, finding one isn't as easy as "ONE...TWO...THREE...FOUR!"
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2017
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED BREKinney, Jeff
Summary: Tagging along with his brother Rodrick's band, Löded Diper, Greg gets more than he bargained for when he gets a backstage pass to the rock 'n' roll lifestyle and wonders if he can help them become the legends they think they are.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC KINCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in J Series, Call number: J FIC KINYolen, Jane.
Summary: Tired of being picked on at school for being a "furrin Immigrant" because he is Jewish, twelve-year-old Sammy Greenburg learns the legend of the golem from his bar mitzvah coach, but discovers that friends--and forming a klezmer fusion band--can be better than magic in defeating bullies.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Children's Books 2013
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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Yolen 2013Appelt, Kathi
Summary: On a midsummer's night the Marching Bat Band makes a rare appearance, its members grouped in formations that demonstrate multiplication from two times two up to ten times ten.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Morrow Junior Books 1999