Band Geek Love
Title | Band Geek Love PDF eBook |
Author | Josie Bloss |
Publisher | Llewellyn Worldwide |
Pages | 265 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 0738713589 |
The marching band is high school senior Ellie Snow's all-consuming passion until she finds herself in a secret romance with a handsome sophomore.
Geek Love
Title | Geek Love PDF eBook |
Author | Katherine Dunn |
Publisher | Vintage |
Pages | 366 |
Release | 2011-05-25 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0307794482 |
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.
Notes From An Accidental Band Geek
Title | Notes From An Accidental Band Geek PDF eBook |
Author | Erin Dionne |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 186 |
Release | 2011-09-01 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1101529407 |
From the author of Models Don’t Eat Chocolate Cookies comes a middle grade novel hailed by Linda Urban as “A perfect blend of laugh out loud funny and real-world heart.” Elsie Wyatt wants to be an orchestra superstar, like her dad and grandfather. The first step? Get into a super-selective summer music camp. In order to qualify, Elsie must “expand her musical horizons” by joining her high school’s marching band. Not only does this mean wearing a plumed hat and polyester pants, but it also means she can’t play her own instrument, can’t sit down, and can’t seem to say the right thing to anyone…let alone Jake, the cute trumpet player she meets on the first day. Plus, everything she does seems to cause a disaster. Surviving marching band is going to be way harder than Elsie thought. For fans of funny, realistic, every-girl novels like Wendy Mass’s 13 Gifts and Lisa Greenwald’s My Life in Pink & Green. “It has humor, heart, and a touch of romance that will provide ample fodder for booktalks.”—School Library Journal “Marching-band kids everywhere will enjoy this believable celebration of a life-changing, musical rite of passage.”—Kirkus
Geektastic
Title | Geektastic PDF eBook |
Author | Holly Black |
Publisher | Little, Brown Books for Young Readers |
Pages | 370 |
Release | 2009-08-01 |
Genre | Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | 0316052620 |
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!
Confessions of a Band Geek Mom
Title | Confessions of a Band Geek Mom PDF eBook |
Author | Stacy Dymalski |
Publisher | |
Pages | 220 |
Release | 2011-04-01 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780615474991 |
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.
I [heart] Band!
Title | I [heart] Band! PDF eBook |
Author | Michelle Schusterman |
Publisher | Grosset & Dunlap |
Pages | 209 |
Release | 2014 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 0448456834 |
The word "heart" in the title and series statement appears as the heart symbol.
Albatross
Title | Albatross PDF eBook |
Author | Josie Bloss |
Publisher | Llewellyn Worldwide |
Pages | 120 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0738714763 |
A new student develops a destructive crush on a musician in love with the mysterious and alluring "albatross" around his neck.