When her mother is lured into the desert by a cult leader, Van, seventeen, must leave Alex, the boy she is falling for, her comfortable life in a Las Vegas casino, and the dream of playing in a rock band, to rescue her.

While her mother is out of town, sixteen-year-old Taliah accompanies her estranged father--a famous rock star who one day appears on her doorstep--to Oak Falls, Indiana, to meet his dying father and the rest of his family, and on the way, Taliah learns about how her parents met and separated, her mother's experience as a Jordanian immigrant, and her own ability to accept change and open up to others.

Flying to New York to talk her estranged birth mother into donating a kidney to her younger sister, eighteen-year-old Mia Cox forms an unexpected connection with her seatmate, a famous rock band's runaway lead singer.

Adam, now a rising rock star, and Mia, a successful cellist, reunite in New York and reconnect after the horrific events that tore them apart when Mia almost died in a car accident three years earlier.

At the end of the day, while Farmer Joe gets ready for bed, his animals tune their instruments to perform in a big concert as a rock band called Punk Farm.

When Ian, a long-lost teenage relative, finds her, Louise Chao, punk rock vampire extraordinaire, feels a connection for the first time in ages, but when he discovers her true identity, he asks her for the ultimate favor--one that might change everything vampires know about life and death forever. Everything you have heard about vampires is a lie -- vampire life is really just a lot of blood bags and night jobs. For Louise Chao, it's also lonely,...

Peggy becomes very worried when she hears that the Aliens are coming, but then she learns that they are a rock band. Annotation. Peggy the pig is back in a new easy-to-read escapade just as funny as The Viper. "The Aliens have landed!" scream news reports. And they're coming nearer! What's a petrified piggy to do? Kids will love figuring out before Peggy does that the Aliens are not extraterrestrials but a popular rock band.

Twelve-year-old María Luisa O'Neill-Morales (who really prefers to be called Malú) reluctantly moves with her Mexican-American mother to Chicago and starts seventh grade with a bang--violating the dress code with her punk rock aesthetic and spurning the middle school's most popular girl in favor of starting a band with a group of like-minded weirdos.

Ladybugs are so cute, small, and fly so gently. Not so for the "Jitterbug" -- Lady B. Marie! Her heart beats for rock 'n' roll. Instead of going flower to flower, Jitterbug strums her electric guitar and belts out melodies. But Papa, Ms. Snail, Mr. Grasshopper and many of the meadow dwellers aren't so sure they're fans. Will Jitterbug give up? Told in rollicking rhyme, this story reminds us all to be our own beetle.