bands (music)

Nino must take the stage at Tokyo Sailing even though her voice is sounding awful. At the last moment, Yuzu removes his mask and invites her to sing with him, hoping to save In No Hurry's performance.

When Nino is reunited with the two friends she lost, the talent singer loses her ability to sing. Now her band is preparing to play in the Tokyo Sailing concerts with a lead singer who can't find her voice. Nino struggles to figure out what to do now that she has the boy she's always loved but can't sing like she once could.

The members of the pop music group Angora Napkin meet a zombie who takes them to a party and unknowingly set in motion a plot to eradicate life on Earth.

"From the percussion section at the back of room 217, Carmen Trochez keeps the Benton Bluff Junior High band steady. But when a student teacher enters the scene, the band's loyalties are divided. Carmen is usually the glue. Can she keep everything from falling apart?"--Back cover.

A teenage boy describes his band and is faced with a dilemma when a scout wants to record him as a solo artist. Includes activities designed to help reluctant readers further explore the story.

Sixteen-year-old Blanche forms a band that wins a spot at Coachella, a southern California music festival, where she hopes to reconnect with her father, a famous but reclusive musician who left when she was six years old.

Twelve-year-old Mar?a Luisa O'Neill-Morales (who really prefers to be called Mal?) 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.

As long-awaited fourth grade starts, Katie is overwhelmed when the magic wind causes her to switch twice--first into a new classmate and then into Mr. Starkey, the school band leader.

"Nikki is in the spotlight. A reality TV crew will follow her and her friends for the whole month of March as they record their hit song together. But will the excitement also cause unexpected problems, now that cameras are everywhere Nikki and her friends go?"--Provided by publisher.

Seventh-grader Davis Beadle joins the Benton Bluff Junior High band, stubbornly determined to play the trumpet--but that section is full, so the band director instructs him to spend time with several of the other instruments, hoping Davis will find his true place in the band.