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2) Born to rock
Author
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
High school senior Leo Caraway, a conservative Republican, learns that his biological father is a punk rock legend.
3) Beige
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Katy, a quiet French Canadian teenager, reluctantly leaves Montréal to spend time with her estranged father, an aging Los Angeles punk rock legend. Dad's an aging L.A. punk rocker known as the Rat. Daughter's a buttoned-up neat freak who'd rather be anywhere else. Can this summer be saved? Now that she's exiled from Canada to sunny Los Angeles, Katy figures she'll bury her nose in a book and ignore the fact that she's spending two weeks with her...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Twelve-year-old María Luisa O'Neill-Morales (who really prefers to be called Malú) 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.
Author
Series
Phoebe and Her Unicorn volume 17
Publisher
Andrews McMeel Publishing
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Phoebe Howell and her unicorn best friend, Marigold Heavenly Nostrils, are headed to music camp for the summer, where they form a punk rock group with fellow campers Sue and Stevie. Marigold also discovers a portal to a parallel dimension where she and Phoebe come face-to-face with the dark and sinister versions of themselves. Throughout their magical and musical adventures, the best friends learn about the value of friendship, following your heart,...
Author
Publisher
Inkyard Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"It’s summer 1977 and closeted lesbian Tammy Larson can’t be herself anywhere. Not at her strict Christian high school, not at her conservative Orange County church and certainly not at home, where her ultrareligious aunt relentlessly organizes antigay political campaigns. Tammy’s only outlet is writing secret letters in her diary to gay civil rights activist Harvey Milk until she’s matched with a real-life pen pal who changes everything....
Author
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
John Constantine, a magician of the highest caliber, accepts an apprenticeship in the United States to become the lead singer of his best friend's punk band, but when a complicated spell gets out of hand, the disastrous consequences might be more than Constantine can handle.
Author
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Sebastian Prendergast lives in a geodesic dome with his eccentric grandmother, who homeschools him in the teachings of futurist philosopher R. Buckminster Fuller. But when his grandmother has a stroke, Sebastian is forced to leave the dome and make his own way in town.
Author
Publisher
Soho Press, Inc
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
In 1990s Portland, Oregon, seventeen-year-old Iph, aided by George, a modern-day Robin Hood, seeks her sensitive fifteen-year-old brother, Orr, while Orr has escaped wilderness boot camp and is residing with The Furies, an all-girl punk band.
13) SLC punk
Series
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
In the early 1980's Stevo and Heroin Bob are the only two dedicated punks in conversative Salt Lake City.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A formative coming-of-age graphic memoir by the creator of Afro-punk: a young man’s immersive reckoning with identity, racism, clumsy teen love and belonging in an isolated California desert, and a search for salvation and community through punk.
Apple Valley, California, in the late eighties, a thirsty, miserable desert.
Teenage James Spooner hates that he and his mom are back in town after years away. The one silver lining—new school, new...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
While pundits bemoan the death of the music industry and decry teenagers for their morals, earnest, heartfelt bands like Dashboard Confessional, Jimmy Eat World, and Thursday are quietly selling hundreds of thousands of albums through dedication, relentless touring and respect for their fans. This relationship--between young people and the empathetic music that sets them off down a road of self-discovery and self-definition--is emo, a much-maligned,...
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Through how-to information and insider humor, this book talks about punk rock etiquette such as guidelines for choosing bandmates and a name, instructions for screen-printing merchandise, and the immutable laws of stage etiquette.
Author
Publisher
Broadway Books
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Paints a revealing portrait of the pioneering rock musician, detailing his innovative influence on the world of rock music and his turbulent personal life, including his rise to fame and his battles with drug addiction and mental illness.
Author
Publisher
SLG
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
"Punk Rock & Trailer Parks conjures up the oppressive insanity of growing up in a small town, the day-to-day weirdness of the trailer parks tucked away therein, the magic allure of sex and the necessary comforts of friendship, the mystical power of the counter-culture to turn outcasts into heroes and, most of all, the transcendent power of music, specifically the punk rock of the late 1970's which redefined, transported, and ultimately, perhaps, disappointed...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Español, una división de Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Español
Description
After María Luisa O'Neill-Morales moves with her Mexican-American mother to Chicago, she violates her school's dress code with her punk rock aesthetic and spurns the school's most popular girl to start a band with like-minded friends.