bands (music)

A group of fame-starved, working-class Irish youths with a passion for the music of Sam Cooke and Otis Redding form a band and a plan to bring Soul to Dublin.

"When Nat, her best friend Jess and singing-star wannabe Harper sing together, their harmonies bring down the house. ... But when the girls form a trio and enter a contest for a chance to play at the Tall Grass Music Festival, Nat finds that harmony--musical and otherwise--is hard to maintain"--Back cover.

Twelve-year-old Kacey Simon's jealousy threatens her popularity when her new crush Zander's ex-girlfriend and former lead singer, Stevie, arrives in town.

When the high school cheerleading team takes over a soda vending machine's funds, which were previously collected by the pep band, Gabe Johnson, an overweight "band geek" tired of being called names and looked down on, declares war.

"As a young boy growing up in Ireland, Patrick Sarsfield Gilmore loved music--the louder, the better! This love of music followed him to Boston in 1849, where he became a band leader. During the brutal Civil War, it was music that kept up his spirits and those of his fellow soldiers. So when the war ended and peace was restored to the country, Patrick had an idea. He would create the biggest, boldest, loudest concert the world had ever known to celebrate"--Jacket flap.

Geeky Simon is determined to gain everlasting fame and glory by winning the school talent show.

"A teenaged guitarist in a rock band deals with loss and anger as he relates the events that landed him in a juvenile detention center"--Provided by publisher.

When popular middle schooler Kacey Simon ges glasses and braces and is rejected by her crowd, she befriends a boy who is in a punk rock band and discovers some things about friendship, relationships, and herself.

Middle-schooler Theora Theremin and her brother Verbert find themselves whisked from the shores of hometown Lake Philodendron to an intergalactic beauty contest on Neptune.

On her first day of seventh grade, Holly Mead learns that her new band director is surprisingly strict and that her best friend has replaced her with the new French horn player.