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This Song Will Save Your Life

Leila Sales - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover

Making friends has never been Elise Dembowski's strong suit. All throughout her life, she's been the butt of every joke and the outsider in every conversation. When a final attempt at popularity fails, Elise nearly gives up. Then she stumbles upon a warehouse party where she meets Vicky,...
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If I Stay

Gayle Forman - Listening Library
Format: Audio CD

The critically acclaimed, bestselling novel from Gayle Forman, author of Where She Went, Just One Day, and Just One Year. Soon to be a major motion picture, starring Chloe Grace Moretz! In the blink of an eye everything changes. Seventeen year-old Mia has no memory of the accident; she can only...
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Just Listen

Sarah Dessen - Viking Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

A New York Times bestsellerTo find the truth you've got to be willing to hear it. When she's modeling, Annabel is the picture of perfection. But her real life is far from perfect. Fortunately, she's got Owen. He's intense, music-obsessed, and dedicated to always telling the truth....
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Audrey, Wait!

Robin Benway - Razorbill
Format: Hardcover

The wait is over for the paperback of this irresistible, fast-paced, hit-worthy debut! When funny, charming, absolutely-normal Audrey Cuttler dumps her boyfriend Evan, he writes a song about her that becomes a number-one hit?and rockets Audrey to stardom! Suddenly, tabloid paparazzi are on her tail...
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Fat Kid Rules the Wo

K L Going - Speak
Format: Paperback

A Michael L. Printz Honor BookTroy Billings is seventeen, 296 pounds, friendless, utterly miserable, and about to step off a New York subway platform in front of an oncoming train. Until he meets Curt MacCrae, an emaciated, semi-homeless, high school dropout guitar genius, the stuff of which...
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Breakout

Kevin Emerson - Crown Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

When Anthony's angst-ridden rock 'n' roll lyrics go viral, he's unwittingly cast as the school rebel. The truth is, he's not trying to be anyone's hero. Anthony Castillo needs a new life. His teachers are clueless autocrats except for Mr. Darren, who's in charge of the rock band program....
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Wise Young Fool

Sean Beaudoin - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

You want ninety Fine, I'll give you ninety. I'll give them to you coming and going. Teen rocker Ritchie Sudden is pretty sure his life has just jumped the shark. Except he hates being called a teen, his band doesn't play rock, and "jumping the shark" is yet another dumb...
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The Musician's Daughter

Susanne Emily Dunlap - Bloomsbury USA Childrens
Format: Hardcover

Amid the glitter and glamour of musical and court life in 18th century Vienna, fifteen-year-old Theresa Maria Shurman is trying to solve a brutal mystery. Who killed her father, an acclaimed violinist, and stole his valuable Amati violin? When Haydn himself offers her a position as his assistant,...
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The Slave Dancer

Paula Fox - Simon & Schuster
Format: Paperback

In this powerful historical novel a thirteen-year-old boy is kidnapped and brought aboard a slave ship, where he is forced to play music that will entice the slaves to exercise.
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Playlist for the Dead

Michelle Falkoff - HarperTeen
Format: Hardcover

"A page-turner that combines genuine intrigue with heartbreak and desire." - Holly Goldberg Sloan, New York Times bestselling author of Counting by 7sPart mystery, part love story, and part coming-of-age tale in the vein of Thirteen Reasons Why, The Perks of Being a Wallflower,...
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Get Happy

Mary Amato - EgmontUSA
Format: Hardcover

In this poignant, realistic, contemporary YA by a state master list star, perfect for fans of Sarah Dessen and Gayle Forman, a young songwriter builds a substitute family with her friends in place of the broken family she grew up with.Minerva has been raised by her single mother after her father...
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Girl Last Seen

Anne Greenwood Brown - Albert Whitman & Company
Format: Hardcover

Kadence Mulligan's star was rising. She and her best friend, Lauren DeSanto, watched their songs go viral on YouTube, then she launched a solo career when a nasty throat infection paralyzed Lauren's vocal chords. Everyone knows Lauren and Kadence had a major falling-out over Kady's boyfriend....
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The Haters

Jesse Andrews - Amulet Paperbacks
Format: Hardcover

A New York Times bestseller! From Jesse Andrews, author of the New York Times bestselling Me and Earl and the Dying Girl and screenwriter of the Sundance award-winning motion picture of the same name, comes a groundbreaking young adult novel about music, love, friendship, and freedom...
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Kaleidoscope Song

FOX BENWELL - Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Fox Benwell delivers a harrowing and beautifully written novel that explores the relationship between two girls obsessed with music, the practice of corrective rape, and the risks and power of using your voice.Neo loves music, and all she ever wanted was a life sharing this passion, on the radio....
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Naked '76

Kevin Brooks - Carolrhoda Lab TM
Format: Hardcover

London, 1976: A summer of creation, destruction, and blistering heat. Lili Garcia stands at the edge of London's growing punk scene, playing bass with one of city's wildest bands. The group's success has only strained things between Lili and Curtis Ray, her cool, rebellious boyfriend and bandmate....
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Fireworks

Katie Cotugno - HarperCollins Publishers and Blackstone Audio
Format: Audio CD

[Young Adult Fiction (Ages 12-17) ][Read by Erin Spencer]It was always meant to be Olivia. She was the talented one, the one who had been training to be a star her whole life. Her best friend, Dana, was the level-headed one, always on the sidelines, cheering her best friend along.But...
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Lost Stars

Lisa Selin Davis - HMH Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Eleanor & Park meets Perks of Being a Wallflower in this bittersweet 1980's story about love, loss, and a comet that only comes around every ninety-seven years. When Carrie looks through her telescope, the world makes sense. It's life here on Earth that's hard to decipher....
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Friend or Foe

Patrick Jones - Darby Creek
Format: Library Binding

Do the crime, do the time behind bars. But once you've been in, it can be tough to stay out.Ian's band is finally taking off. But the band's front man and Ian's best friend, Orlando, can't catch a break as a black kid in their white town. Tension with a security guard lands both Ian and Orlando...
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Devil and the Bluebird

Jennifer Mason-Black - Amulet Books
Format: Hardcover

Blue Riley has wrestled with her own demons ever since the loss of her mother to cancer. But when she encounters a beautiful devil at her town crossroads, it's her runaway sister's soul she fights to save. The devil steals Blue's voice--inherited from her musically gifted mother--in exchange...
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This Darkness Mine

MINDY MCGINNIS - Katherine Tegen Books
Format: Hardcover

Mindy McGinnis, award-winning author of The Female of the Species and A Madness So Discreet, returns with a new dark and twisted psychological thriller - perfect for fans of Gone Girl and Fight Club.Sasha Stone knows her place - first-chair clarinet, top of her class, and at the side of her Oxford-wearing...
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Girls in the Moon

Janet Mcnally - HarperTeen
Format: Hardcover

Everyone in Phoebe Ferris's life tells a different version of the truth.Her mother, Meg, ex-rock star and professional question evader, shares only the end of the story - the post-fame calm that Phoebe's always known. Her sister Luna, indie rock darling of Brooklyn, preaches a stormy truth...
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The Victoria in My Head

Janelle Milanes - Simon Pulse
Format: Hardcover

A shy, rule-following teen winds up joining a local rock band in this laugh-out-loud, heartfelt coming-of-age novel.Victoria Cruz inhabits two worlds: In one, she is a rock star, thrashing the stage with her husky voice and purple-streaked hair. In the other, currently serving as her reality,...
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Kill the Boy Band

Goldy Moldavsky - Point
Format: Hardcover

Just know from the start that it wasn't supposed to go like this. All we wanted was to get near them. That's why we got a room in the hotel where they were staying. We were not planning to kidnap one of them. Especially not the most useless one. But we had him-his room key, his cell phone,...
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Remix

Non Pratt - Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Two girls test the strength of their friendship - and their hearts - over the course of a summer weekend in this contemporary novel perfect for fans of Morgan Matson and Rainbow Rowell.Ruby and Kaz's friendship has always worked like a well-oiled machine. Ruby is loud and acts impulsively,...
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The Bad Decisions Playlist

Michael Rubens - Clarion Books
Format: Hardcover

Sixteen-year-old Austin is always messing up and then joking his way out of tough spots. The sudden appearance of his allegedly dead father, who happens to be the very-much-alive rock star Shane Tyler, stops him cold. Austin - a talented musician himself - is sucked into his newfound father's...
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Scar Girl

Len Vlahos - Carolrhoda Lab TM
Format: Hardcover

When The Scar Boys ended, the band has fallen apart. Harry and Johnny are barely speaking, and Cheyenne is feeling desperate about Johnny, who has retreated into silence. It's only through their music that the group is able to rebuild their relationships, and they slowly begin to reach...
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Here We Are Now

Jasmine Warga - Balzer + Bray
Format: Hardcover

A book about love, loss, and the power of music, perfect for fans of Nick Hornby and Fangirl. Taliah Sahar Abdallat lives and breathes music. Songs have always helped Tal ease the pain of never having known her father. Her mother, born in Jordan and very secretive about her past, won't...
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When It's Real

Erin Watt - Harlequin Teen
Format: Hardcover

Wealth, fame and a real-life romance she never expected - seventeen-year-old Vaughn Bennett lands it all when she agrees to become a pop star's fake girlfriend in this smart, utterly addictive novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author duo Erin Watt Under ordinary circumstances, Oakley...
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The Way It Hurts

PATTY BLOUNT - Sourcebooks Fire
Format: Paperback

There may be two sides to every story, but sometimes there's only one way to set things right...Music is Elijah's life. His band plays loud and hard, and he'll do anything to get them a big break. He needs that success to help take care of his sister, who has special needs. So he'd rather...
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