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1) Chuck's Band
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Chuck and his barnyard friends form a band, but they have trouble finding an instrument for Fat Cat Pat to play, since all the cat wants to do is sleep all day.
Author
Series
Olivia books (Ian Falconer) volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
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Description
When Olivia learns that there will be no band at the evening's fireworks display, she decides to form one of her own, with herself as the only musician and some rather unusual instruments.
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Series
Major eights volume 1
Pub. Date
[2018].
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Keyboardist Jasmine, age eight, tries to convince her bandmates, Maggie, Becca, and Scarlet, to prove themselves in a Battle of the Bands competition, despite their poor equipment.
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Series
Dead is-- (Spin-off) volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 5
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Description
High school freshman Jessica Walsh has yet another problem to solve in her capacity of Nightshade, California's virago woman warrior--some supernatural pied piper seems to be using her boyfriend and his band, Side Effects May Vary, and the other bands in Nightshade's Battle of the Bands to perform illegal and fatal things throughout town.
5) The Haters
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 12
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Description
A road trip adventure about a trio of jazz-camp escapees who, against every realistic expectation, become a band.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 2
Description
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.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 2
Description
When her grandparents sign her up for the Benton Bluff Junior High band Tally Nguyen is horrified and worried about what the kids on her snowboarding team will think--but she comes to realize that she doesn't need to choose between the groups.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 2
Description
The Benton Bluff Junior High band is one of a number of bands that will compete to perform for a chance to play for the governor, and two of the band members are fighting over who gets to be the soloist--Baylor Meece (clarinet) is not one of them, so can she come up with a plan to bring the band back into harmony?
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"Four years after leaving town to make a name for himself as a composer, Gilbert Baty has returned temporarily to Falke, Kansas. Now, he's trying to keep everyone from learning the truth about his disastrous years in New York City. He hopes to start writing music again in Falke, but he can't help being distracted by Ava Flaming, the brown-eyed baker to whom he was briefly engaged before he ended things--and who still stirs feelings in him he knows...
11) First chair
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Flutist Hope James is under a lot of pressure from her mother to win first chair in the band, so when Sherman Frye enrolls at Benton Bluff Junior High she panics because he could steal it from her--so Hope and her friend Baylor come up with a plan to sabotage Sherman, not realizing that he is under pressure too.
12) Notes from a pro
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
Description
When one of the other members of Benton Bluff Junior High band shows up with a shiny new trombone, Kori Neal's school-loaner suddenly seems beat-up and old so she comes up with an idea to organize a fund-raiser to buy new instruments--until advice from a famous local jazz musician gives her a clearer perspective on the issue.
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"Tessa Bailey delivers a sexy, hilarious standalone holiday rom-com about the adult children of two former rock stars who team up to convince their estranged mothers to play a Christmas Eve concert … Melody Gallard may be the daughter of music royalty, but her world is far from glamorous. She spends her days restoring old books and avoiding the limelight (one awkward tabloid photo was enough, thanks). But when a producer offers her a lot of money...
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Series
Major eights volume 2
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
The fame the Major Eights experience after the Battle of the Bands competition goes to Scarlet's head and she signs up for the school's talent show as a solo artist.
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Series
Rosa books (Vera B. Williams) volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
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Description
Rosa plays her accordion with her friends in the Oak Street Band and earns money to help her mother with expenses while her grandmother is sick.
16) Thunderbowl
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Sixteen-year-old Jeremy, caught up in the excitement of playing guitar for the hot band Thunderbowl, begins to lose control of the rest of his life.
17) This lullaby
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 15
Description
Raised by a mother who's had five husbands, eighteen-year-old Remy believes in short-term, no-commitment relationships until she meets Dexter, a rock band musician.
18) Born to rock
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Description
High school senior Leo Caraway, a conservative Republican, learns that his biological father is a punk rock legend.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 7
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Description
Because living with "modern-hippy" parents on a goat farm means fourteen-year-old Janie Gorman cannot have a normal high school life, she tries joining Jam Band, making friends with Monster, and spending time with elderly former civil rights workers.
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