Spin by Colleen Nelson

An aspiring teenage DJ must learn how to navigate life when people find out that she's the daughter of a famous singer.

Fifteen-year-old Delilah “Dizzy” Doucette lives with her dad and brother above their vintage record store, The Vinyl Trap. She’s learning how to spin records from her brother’…

My Song Journal

I've been recently thinking about this book - Songs for a Teenage Nomad. In it the protagonist, Calle, has a song journal where she links a song with a memory. So I decided to give it a whirl. First, here are some examples from the book:
Get Out the Map
"... the air smelling like honeysuck…

Songs for a Teenage Nomad by Kim Culbertson

Standalone. Sourcebooks Fire (September 2010) Own
What is the soundtrack of your life?

After living in twelve places in eight years,Calle Smith finds herself in Andreas Bay, California, at the start of ninth grade. Another new home, another new school...Calle knows better than to put down roots. Her …

Blog Tour: Destiny by Cindy Ray Hale

Destiny #1. Self-Published (Nov. 2013) Lola's Blog Tours Destiny Clark, a young Mormon girl living in Tennessee, is wildly infatuated with Isaac Robinson, the headmaster's son at her Baptist high school. When they're cast together in the school's production of Les Misérables, Destiny…

A Song for Julia by Charles Sheehan-Miles

Title: A Song for Julia Author: Charles Sheehan-Miles Series: Thompson Sisters (Book #2) Format- ebook Publisher- Cincinnatus Press Published- December 5th, 2012 Pages- 295 Source- AToMR Tours
Everyone should have something to rebel against.
Crank Wilson left his South Boston home at sixteen to star…

Five Flavors of Dumb by Antony John

Piper doesn't speak up, she blends in but one day the band Dumb who just won the Battle of the Bands are playing outside school on the steps so she has to stop. It doesn't mean she's listening because she can't. She's deaf. She can hear the vibrations and with some equipment sh…

Zero by Tom Leveen

Amanda Walsh's a.k.a. Zero's life has made a turn for the worse. Her parents are still arguing, her dad is still drinking way too much, she wasn't able to get scholarship money to go to her dream school, and her and her best friend are just not talking.

She loves the artist Salvador Da…

I Forgot To Say....

Happy Easter everybody! Have a great day! Listening to some Christian music right now....

Safe & Sound

I know I already mentioned this song but now I saw they put a music video with it and thought I should put it on again. Anyways I can't get enough of it. I recommend closing your eyes while listening to it. It's so beautiful that way. Favorite lines:
Don't you dare look out your window…

This Is a Song About Dave

From A Little Wanting Song by Cath Crowley

I like the little shadows
You got sitting in your smile
I could watch them for a while
Quite a long while, actually

I like how I never had the call before
To use the word "adore" before
But now I do

I got a little piece of what I want with you

I …

The End of Her

From A Little Wanting Song by Cath Crowley


She's sitting on the hill
Hoping for a day
When her dreams don't hit the road
She's throwing rocks and yelling
At the sky and at the weather
She's yelling at forever
That's been breathing on her neck

She can't start with him again
H…

A Little Wanting Song by Cath Crowley

Charlie is the quiet type of girl who is awesome at singing the blues but can never get up on stage to show it. She can't even sing in front of her dad. She was nine when her mom died. Her father has never gotten over it. He went from cool quiet everything under control to just quiet and never…

I Wanna Be Your Joey Ramone by Stephanie Kuehnert

Summary: A raw, edgy, emotional novel about growing up punk and living to tell.
The Clash. Social Distortion. Dead Kennedys. Patti Smith. The Ramones. Punk rock is in Emily Black's blood. Her mother, Louisa, hit the road to follow the incendiary music scene when Emily was four months old and nev…