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When the Beat Drops by Anna Hecker

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When the Beat Drops

Anna Hecker

Sky Pony · Hardcover · May 15, 2018

Reading lane: Music Stories for Teens

It's time to face the music.

At a Glance

Why This Clicks

Two Beats, One Summer

Jazz ambition meets dance-floor discovery in a music-filled summer that changes Mira’s priorities.

Come here for

  • The pull between trumpet practice and the rush of DJing
  • Music, friendship, and first-love complications

Expect

  • A summer of packed dance floors and shifting loyalties
  • A turn from sunlit festivals toward grief and hard questions

Book Details

Authors
Anna Hecker
Publisher
Sky Pony
Published
May 15, 2018
Format
Hardcover
Theme
Music Stories for Teens · Dance Stories for Teens
Reading lane
Music Stories for Teens

Affinity

Publisher Categories

  • Coming of Age

  • YA Sibling Stories

  • Music Stories for Teens

  • Dating & Sex for Teens

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  • Addiction & Substance Use for Teens

  • Friendship for Teens

About This Book

It's time to face the music. Seventeen-year-old Mira has always danced to her own beat. A music prodigy in a family of athletes, she'd rather play trumpet than play ball—and with her audition to a prestigious jazz conservatory just around the corner (and her two best friends at music camp without her), she plans to spend the summer focused on jazz and nothing else. She only goes to the warehouse party in a last-ditch effort to bond with her older sister. Instead, she falls i...

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It's time to face the music. Seventeen-year-old Mira has always danced to her own beat. A music prodigy in a family of athletes, she'd rather play trumpet than play ball—and with her audition to a prestigious jazz conservatory just around the corner (and her two best friends at music camp without her), she plans to spend the summer focused on jazz and nothing else. She only goes to the warehouse party in a last-ditch effort to bond with her older sister. Instead, she falls in love with dance music, DJing... and Derek, a gorgeous promoter who thinks he can make her a star. Suddenly, trumpet practice and old friendships are taking a back seat to packed dance floors and sun-soaked music festivals, outsized personalities and endless beats. But when a devastating tragedy plunges her golden summer into darkness, Mira discovers just how little she knows about her new boyfriend, her old friends, and even her own sister. Music brought them together. Will it also tear them apart?

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