Download or read book Confessions of a Teenage Band Geek written by Courtney Brandt and published by Muse Media, LLC. This book was released on 2020-11-14 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrating the 10th anniversary of its original publication, the completely updated rerelease of Confessions of a Teenage Band Geek combines new scenes, revamped characters, and more drama while keeping the amusing personalities and exciting plot that readers have known and loved. Drum set player Julia McCoy is not a typical marching band member. Moving across the country and becoming a rookie as she starts her junior year, Julia must deal with an intense instructor and the potential of love in her own section. After (somewhat accidentally) joining a rock band, her loyalties will be tested in a semester full of difficult decisions. From a dramatic band camp to a memorable first marching competition and an unforgettable Homecoming, Julia's first semester at Willow Creek High School is one that readers won't soon forget. Enjoy her adventures now and prepare for more to come as Julia's season continues in future installments! Fans, alumni, and current marching band members will enjoy this lighthearted romance, set among familiar practice fields and under recognizable stadium lights.
Download or read book Confessions of a Band Geek Mom written by Stacy Dymalski and published by . This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stand-up comic and writer/filmmaker Stacy Dymalski learned about parenting the hard way; she became one. After 36 years of childless living spoiled her into believing happy hour was just a normal part of one's daily commute, she moved to Utah (to ski everyday, of course) and within a year got pregnant. (Isn't that what happens to any woman who moves to Utah?) Before she knew it she had two young sons and suddenly sleep won out over midnight comedy shows. Juicy Juice replaced Gray Goose vodka (although they are good mixed). Prada bags gave way to diaper bags. Showers couldn't last longer than a "Bob the Builder" video. Vacations took a back seat to music lessons, and band instruments littered the house like empty beer bottles in a college dorm. And for the first 10 years of her sons' lives she felt compelled to clean up her language (sort of). In between carpools and doing crazy stuff like lobbying for sex education in schools (so our kids don't grow up thinking the missionary position involves a bicycle and a doorbell) Stacy has documented her parenting journey in this delightful collection of laugh-out-loud stories that her children are sure to contest once they're old enough to understand the art of irony and exaggeration.
Download or read book Confessions of a Teenage Drag King written by Markus Harwood-Jones and published by James Lorimer & Company. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Full of colourful, authentic characters and set in Toronto, Confessions of a Teenage Drag King highlights diversity of race, gender, sexual orientation, and identity. Seventeen-year-old Lauren tries to navigate the tricky waters of teen romance that brings high school to the drag show and back, all while Lauren must keep up their two personas — Ren, a drag king, and Lauri, a typical student — and come to terms with their feelings both for mixed-race student Clover and for their own identity as an LGBTQ+ teen. Confessions of a Teenage Drag King is a realistic but light-hearted exploration of gender and identity, making it a fun and topical read for today's teen readers.
Download or read book Growing Up Dead written by Peter Conners and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2009-03-31 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A colorful journey from straight-laced suburban kid to Deadhead nomad to mid-thirties dad, against the backdrop of the late 80s and mid- 90s"
Download or read book Band Nerds Confessions and Confusion written by Dj Corchin and published by . This book was released on 2014-10-01 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Socrates. Plato. Aristotle. Mere child's play. Band Nerds Confessions & Confusion is the newest addition to the Band Nerds Book Series. With over 800 quotes, anecdotes, and thoughts from The 13th Chair, there isn't a larger source of band hodgepodge genius on the planet. We've all wondered what our messy music lockers say about us. Or dreamed of the many ways instruments can fit together to form a super robot. Truly thought provoking words await you. Go ahead, open to any page and transport yourself to the humorously inspiring music world of The 13th Chair!
Download or read book Major Pain written by Courtney Brandt and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-01-07 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can one girl save an entire marching program? Rigby Sullivan is going to try. She's got an uphill battle going from drum line to drum major, with extra complications in the form of an undeniable attraction to an off limits instructor. Written in relatable first person, Courtney Brandt brings her usual blend of humor and romance to the marching field in her final band geek novel, Major Pain. Fans of The Line series and marching band members of all ages will be sure to enjoy!
Download or read book Band Nerds Confessions written by DJ Corchin and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2020-12-01 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A hilariously brilliant compilation of all things related to band-nerd utopia will have you at cello! This sharp installment of the 13th Chair series from DJ Corchin is laugh-out-loud funny! Socrates. Plato. Aristotle. Mere child's play! Band Nerds Confessions is the newest addition to the Band Nerds Book Series. With over 800 quotes, anecdotes, and thoughts from the 13th Chair, there isn't a larger source of band hodgepodge genius on the planet. We've all wondered what our messy music lockers say about us. Or dreamed of the many ways instruments can fit together to form a super robot. Truly thought-provoking words await you. Go ahead, open to any page and transport yourself to the humorously inspiring music world of the 13th Chair!
Download or read book Youth Cultures in America 2 volumes written by Simon J. Bronner and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2016-03-21 with total page 869 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What are the components of youth cultures today? This encyclopedia examines the facets of youth cultures and brings them to the forefront. Although issues of youth culture are frequently cited in classrooms and public forums, most encyclopedias of childhood and youth are devoted to history, human development, and society. A limitation on the reference bookshelf is the restriction of youth to pre-adolescence, although issues of youth continue into young adulthood. This encyclopedia addresses an academic audience of professors and students in childhood studies, American studies, and culture studies. The authors span disciplines of psychology, sociology, anthropology, history, and folklore. The Encyclopedia of Youth Cultures in America addresses a need for historical, social, and cultural information on a wide array of youth groups. Such a reference work serves as a corrective to the narrow public view that young people are part of an amalgamated youth group or occupy malicious gangs and satanic cults. Widespread reports of bullying, school violence, dominance of athletics over academics, and changing demographics in the United States has drawn renewed attention to the changing cultural landscape of youth in and out of school to explain social and psychological problems.
Download or read book Band Life written by DJ. CORCHIN and published by Phazelfoz Company, LLC. This book was released on 2017-10-16 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You eat it. You sleep it. You eat it while you sleep it. You are in band! The Band Nerds Book Series became a world-wide phenomenon spreading the antics of lovable band nerds everywhere. From the same award-winning team, BAND = LIFE is the best collection of band nerds books ever written in any universe. It includes all four books in the Band Nerds Book Series plus over 50 pages of bonus material. That's over 600 pages of nerdy goodness. Grab the ultimate practice procrastination tool and see the musical world through the eyes of The 13th Chair! Omnibus Includes: Band Nerds Poetry From The 13th Chair The Marching Band Nerds Handbook Band Nerds Confessions & Confusion The Marching Band Nerds Awards Plus more bonus material than you can handle!
Download or read book Geek Love written by Katherine Dunn and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-05-25 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: National Book Award Finalist • Here is the unforgettable story of the Binewskis, a circus-geek family whose matriarch and patriarch have bred their own exhibit of human oddities—with the help of amphetamines, arsenic, and radioisotopes. One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years Their offspring include Arturo the Aquaboy, who has flippers for limbs and a megalomaniac ambition worthy of Genghis Khan . . . Iphy and Elly, the lissome Siamese twins . . . albino hunchback Oly, and the outwardly normal Chick, whose mysterious gifts make him the family’s most precious—and dangerous—asset. As the Binewskis take their act across the backwaters of the U.S., inspiring fanatical devotion and murderous revulsion; as its members conduct their own Machiavellian version of sibling rivalry, Geek Love throws its sulfurous light on our notions of the freakish and the normal, the beautiful and the ugly, the holy and the obscene. Family values will never be the same.
Download or read book Your Band Sucks written by Jon Fine and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Jon Fine spent nearly thirty years performing and recording with bands that played various forms of aggressive and challenging underground rock music, and, as he writes in this memoir, at no point were any of those bands 'ever threatened, even distantly, by actual fame.' Yet when members of his first band, Bitch Magnet, reunited after twenty-one years to tour ... diehard longtime fans traveled from far and wide to attend those shows, despite creeping middle-age obligations of parenthood and 9-to-5 jobs, testament to the remarkable staying power of the indie culture that the bands predating the likes of Bitch Magnet--among them Black Flag, Mission of Burma, and Sonic Youth --willed into existence through sheer determination and a shared disdain for the mediocrity of contemporary popular music"--Amazon.com.
Download or read book Confessions of a Teenage Band Geek written by Courtney Brandt and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2011-10 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Told in engaging first person, Confessions of a Teenage Band Geek is not your average YA story. Drum set player Julia McCoy is not a typical marching band member. Forced to move across country and become a rookie as a junior, the newest tenor drummer deals with an intense Instructor, a cheerleader and the possibility of love in her own section.
Download or read book Geektastic written by Holly Black and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2009-08-01 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acclaimed authors Holly Black (Ironside)and Cecil Castellucci (Boy Proof) have united in geekdom to edit short stories from some of the best selling and most promising geeks in young adult literature: M.T. Anderson, Libba Bray, Cassandra Clare, John Green, Tracy Lynn, Cynthia and Greg Leitich Smith, David Levithan, Kelly Link, Barry Lyga, Wendy Mass, Garth Nix, Scott Westerfield, Lisa Yee, and Sara Zarr. With illustrated interstitials from comic book artists Hope Larson and Bryan Lee O'Malley, Geektastic covers all things geeky, from Klingons and Jedi Knights to fan fiction, theater geeks, and cosplayers. Whether you're a former, current, or future geek, or if you just want to get in touch with your inner geek, Geektastic will help you get your geek on!
Download or read book A Fine Line written by Courney Brandt and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2008-09 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lucy Karate is finally a senior and ready to make her permanent mark on the Forrest Hills High School drum line. After receiving the honor of section leader, the bass drummer's season starts out with a bang - literally. When recent British transfer student (and current heartthrob of the school's female population), Wes Mallinson, accidentally kicks a football directly into Lucy's drum one afternoon at practice, he inadvertently triggers a season long showdown of band geek vs. jock.
Download or read book Battle of the Bands written by Eric Smith and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifteen young adult authors and one real-life rock star band together for one epic—and interconnected—take on a memorable high school rite of passage. A daughter of rock ’n’ roll royalty has a secret crush. A lonely ticket taker worries about his sister. An almost-famous songwriter nurses old wounds. A stage manager tires of being behind the scenes. A singer-songwriter struggles to untangle her feelings for her best friend and his girlfriend. In this live-out-loud anthology, the disparate protagonists of sixteen stories are thrown together for one unforgettable event: their high school’s battle of the bands. Told in a harmonic blend of first- and third-person narrative voices, roughly chronological short stories offer a kaleidoscopic view of the same transformative night. Featuring an entry from Justin Courtney Pierre, lead vocalist of Motion City Soundtrack, Battle of the Bands is a celebration of youth, music, and meeting the challenges of life head-on. With stories by Brittany Cavallaro, Preeti Chhibber, Jay Coles, Katie Cotugno, Lauren Gibaldi, Shaun David Hutchinson, Ashley Poston, Jenny Torres Sanchez, Sarah Nicole Smetana, Eric Smith, Jenn Marie Thorne, Sarvenaz Taghavian, Jasmine Warga, Ashley Woodfolk, and Jeff Zentner, and featuring Motion City Soundtrack’s Justin Courtney Pierre.
Download or read book Just a Geek written by Wil Wheaton and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2004-06-22 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Unflinchingly honest tales of the search for life, love, and fulfillment beyond the Starship Enterprise"--title page.
Download or read book Record Play Pause written by Stephen Morris and published by Constable. This book was released on 2019-05-16 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'A unique and thoughtful musical memoir' Observer 'Gritty coming-of-age story . . . plenty of anecdotes to keep us hooked, and his memories of Joy Division's Ian Curtis are poignant' Daily Mirror Before he was responsible for some of the most iconic drumming in popular music, Stephen Morris grew up in 1960s and '70s industrial Macclesfield, on a quiet road that led seemingly to nowhere. Far removed from the bright lights and manic energy of nearby Manchester, he felt stifled by suburbia and feared he might never escape. Then he joined Joy Division - while they were still known as Warsaw - a pioneer of the rousing post-punk sound that would revolutionise twentieth-century rock. Following two landmark albums and widespread critical acclaim, Joy Division were at the height of their powers and poised to break the US, when lead singer, Ian Curtis, committed suicide. Part memoir, part scrapbook and part aural history: Stephen Morris's innate sense of rhythm and verve pulses through Record Play Pause. From recollections of growing up in the North West to the founding of New Order, Morris never strays far from the music. And by turns profound and wry, this book subverts the mythology and allows us to understand music's power to define who we are and what we become.
