Backstage Pass
After moving to Miami, Florida, sixteen-year-old Desert McGraw, whose life as the daughter of a rock star has been anything but normal, determines to make a permanent home for herself and her family--even if it means breaking up the band.
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| Interest Age |
12-15 years |
| Reading Age |
12-15 years |
| Library of Congress |
Rock music - Fiction., Fame - Fiction., Musicians - Fiction. |
| NBS Text |
School Textbooks & Study Guides: Literature, Arts & Humanities |
| ONIX Text |
Children/juvenile;Primary & secondary/elementary & high school;Young adult |
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| Number of Pages |
218 pp |
| Dimensions |
Width: 149mm
Height: 215mm
Spine: 21mm |
| Weight |
381g |
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| Dewey Code |
Not specified |
| Catalogue Code |
54352 |
Description of this Textbook
She's named after a landform. She learned to walk on the red carpet. And now she's playing hostess to the nation's hottest pop star. Desert McGraw hasn't exactly had a normal upbringing. Her dad fronts the popular rock band Crossfire, and her mom is the group's manager. Always on tour or sitting in on recording sessions, Desert leads a life that looks glamorous to most people. But now that she's sixteen and living in yet another new town -- Miami, this time -- Desert is more than ready to call one place home. There's one problem, though: How do you know whom to trust -- let alone what guy to hook up with -- when all any-one wants is access to the band? Funny, romantic, and filled with essential rock-star etiquette (the proper attire for cruising in a Jag convertible, how to introduce new friends to your leather-wearing dad, etc.), Backstage Pass is a look at what happens when real life meets every girl's dream.
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Awards & Reviews
| US Review |
Desert McGraw's a typically whiny 16-year-old. Except that she's the rich, oddly named daughter of a rock star named Flesh and hasn't been off the concert-touring circuit long enough to call any place home or to make friends. Jaded by the coddled trappings of celebrity, Desert has a giant chip on her shoulder, so when her family settles in Florida where she can attend a normal high school, she immediately exhibits an arrogant sense of paranoia about the motives of strangers. Gradually, two classmates start to chip away at her stony wall: rock fan Becca, a lonely and depressed lesbian who worships Desert's dad; and Liam, a too-good-to-be-true boy after her heart . . . and her secrets. When Desert discovers she's being followed by a journalist, she suspects her new friends. When her own parents' secrets are exposed, Desert's melodramatic house-of-cards collapses, leaving her to face her true self and pick up the pieces. Desert's narcissism makes her difficult to warm up to, and her ultimate redemption comes too quickly to be believed, even when it nearly costs her friend's life in the two-hanky conclusion. (Fiction. 12-16) (Kirkus Reviews) |
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