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Title: Tribute to Another Dead Rock Star by Randy Powell ISBN: 0-374-47968-2 Publisher: Sunburst Pub. Date: 01 September, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (6 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Human side of the rock music scene
Comment: Many people would admire Grady, having a world-famous rock star for a mom. But when she dies of a drug overdose, Grady doesn't know where he belongs. His stepmother is very religious, and she and Grady fight all the time. Plus, he loves his mentally disabled brother Louie, but Louie also drives him crazy sometimes. I thought Grady was a great character, just like a real guy who missed his dead mother. I liked him and wanted everything to work out for him. It's too bad the book's cover is so"cartoony" that it doesn't give an accurate picture of how realistic the book is. I liked the look into the rock music scene and how that life can affect real people.
Rating: 5
Summary: What if your parents were Janis Joplin or Kurt Cobain?
Comment: In the great recent tradition of jarringly real young adult fiction from the likes of Bruce Brooks and Chris Crutcher, comes Randy Powell. Winning kudos from such taciturn review sources as Kirkus and high praise from the American Library Association for his earlier works Dean Duffy, The Whistling Toilets, and Is Kissing a Girl Who Smokes Like Licking an Ashtray?, Powell delivers a page-turning speed read with well-developed and memorable characters that break and mend hearts, readers' and each others'. Grady Grennan is the son of Debbie Grennan, the titular dead rock star --- something along the lines of a cross between Janis Joplin and Kurt Cobain. There's to be a tribute to dead and inattentive Mom and Grady is to have a role in that, but he's not sure he wants it. There's also his mentally retarded half-stepbrother (the relationships in this book are complicated and mostly dysfuctional, but honestly portrayed) named Louie, one of most endearing of the cast, and certainly the frankest, unsentimental portrayal of retardation this reader has yet seen. Vickie, the wife of Louie's father, is amazingly frustrating and is without doubt, one of the most interesting stepmothers since Cinderella's; her personal revelation in the closing pages of the book make it easily the most satisfying young adult book I've read this year. Powell is quickly becoming a writer of note for this generation of young people. Highly recommended.
Rating: 4
Summary: Another satisfying read from Powell
Comment: Hardcore skater Grady isn't thrilled with life after his rock-star mom overdosed a year ago, now he has to live with his grandmother who wants to tour the country with her new boyfriend in a Winnebago. Grady decides to visit other relatives, and his half-brother Louie in the pacific northwest...and to top it all off, mom's old band wants to get together and have a tribute concert and they want Grady to open the show with a few words...but all Grady can do is picture his absent mom and her final moments: choking on her own vomit.
If you liked this book, try _Dean Duffy_, a great read about finding your little place in the world.
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Title: The Last Book in the Universe by Rodman Philbrick ISBN: 0439087597 Publisher: Scholastic Signature Pub. Date: 01 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Crazy Loco: Stories by David Rice ISBN: 0142500569 Publisher: Puffin Books Pub. Date: 01 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Backwater by Joan Bauer ISBN: 0698118650 Publisher: Putnam Publishing Group Pub. Date: 01 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Hope Was Here (2001 Newbery Honor Book) by Joan Bauer ISBN: 0698119517 Publisher: Puffin Books Pub. Date: 01 May, 2002 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: The Seeing Stone by Kevin Crossley-Holland ISBN: 0439435242 Publisher: Arthur A. Levine Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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