High school senior Piper Vaughan becomes the manager of her classmates' semi-talented rock band, Dumb. Between the in-fighting, a possible romance, and knowing that her parents have raided her college fund in order to help her sister, Piper must get the band a paying gig if she wants to remain manager. She's up against people's assumptions about her capability because she is deaf.
"In this witty yet thoughtful behind-the-music account of Dumb's journey to semi-stardom...John creates a series of humorous surprises while demonstrating how Piper's deafness, which is integral to the story and never feels like a gimmick, affects her life and those of her parents and brother...[2]
"Written with a reverence for popular music-particularly the work of Jimi Hendrix and Kurt Cobain--and a respect for its ambitious teen characters."[3]
Of note:
338 pages, published in 2010
Won the 2011 Schneider Family Teen Book Award for embodying "an artistic expression of the disability experience for child and adolescent audiences."
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