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It’s 1977, and Faun Novak is in love with rock ‘n’ roll. After her mother’s death, Faun, a naïve college dropout, grabs her Polaroid and hops a Greyhound to Los Angeles. In the City of Angels, she reconnects with her charismatic childhood friend Josie, now an up-and-coming model and muse. To make their reunion even sweeter, Josie is now dating Cal Holiday, the frontman of the superstar rock band Holiday Sun, and Faun is positively mesmerized....
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"Soho, London, 1967. Folk-rock-psychedelic quartet Utopia Avenue is formed. Guitarist Jasper de Zoet, a shy, half-Dutch public-school musical prodigy, was hearing voices long before he dropped acid. Keyboardist Elf Holloway must defy the prejudices of her bank manager father, her housewife mother, and her age to forge her own career. Bassist Dean Moss cannot, will not, spend his life on the factory floor like everyone else in Gravesend. Band manager...
5) Rock seen
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Abrams
Pub. Date
c2011
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English
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"For 40 years, Bob Gruen's name has been synonymous with rock and roll....In this lavish monograph, Gruen has curated his favorite photographs from his career, with intimate captions and behind-the-scenes anecdotes."--Amazon.com.
8) Born to rock
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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When her favorite rock band Lulu and the Handbags announces a contest, Georgia is determined the all-girl rock band she's in will win--even if she has to ask her brother Rafe for help.
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Dey Street Books
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2016.
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English
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Rob Sheffield, the Rolling Stone columnist and bestselling author of Love Is a Mix Tape offers an entertaining, unconventional look at the most popular band in history, the Beatles, exploring what they mean today and why they still matter so intensely to a generation that has never known a world without them. Dreaming the Beatles is not another biography of the Beatles, or a song-by-song analysis of the best of John and Paul. It isn’t another exposé...
10) Barakah Beats
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Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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"It's Nimra Sharif's first time going to public school. Nimra's nervous, but as long as she has her best friend, Jenna, by her side, she figures she can take on just about anything. Unfortunately, middle school is hard. The teachers are mean, the schedule is confusing, and Jenna starts giving hijab-wearing Nimra the cold shoulder aorund the other kids. Desperate to fit in and save her friendship with Jenna, Nimra accepts an unlikely invitation to...
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Rumblewick's diary volume 3
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Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2007
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IL: LG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Rumblewick the cat, the Highly Qualified Witch's Familiar to a reluctant young witch, is lured into abandoning his principles when his witch decides she wants to be the star of a glamorous rock band.
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Overlook
Pub. Date
[2015]
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English
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Drawing on dozens of interviews with George Harrison's close friends and collaborators, a renowned music journalist tracks the Beatle through his many changes and conflicts—from schoolboy guitarist to global superstar, God-seeker to independent filmmaker—and examines the struggle of a man attempting to walk a spiritual path lined with the temptations of fame.
13) The biographical dictionary of popular music: from Adele to Ziggy, the real A to Z of rock and pop
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Picador
Pub. Date
[2012]
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English
15) Beat the band
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Swim the fly series volume 2
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Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
c2010
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IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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Paired with the infamous "Hot Dog" Helen for a health class presentation on safe sex, tenth-grader Coop tries to regain his "cool" by entering his musically challenged rock group in the "Battle of the Bands" competition.
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Tom Gates volume 11
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Bruño
Pub. Date
[2017]
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Español
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Tom Gates agrees to care for his friend Mark's hamster, copes with his teachers and his sister, Delia, and makes a video of his grandparents playing in a rock band at their retirement home.
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Criterion collection volume 1164
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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Emerging from the primordial soup of glamour, gutter sleaze, and feverish creativity that was New York's 1960s underground culture, the Velvet Underground redefined music with its at once raw and exalted blend of experimentation and art-damaged rock and roll. In his kaleidoscopic documentary The Velvet Underground, Todd Haynes vividly evokes the band's incandescent world: the creative origins of the twin visionaries Lou Reed and John Cale, Andy Warhol's...
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