Girl vs. Boy Band: The Right Track
by Harmony Jones (Author)
Booktalk: Talented but painfully shy eighth-grader Lark secretly writes feisty, heartfelt songs about her life-about school, crushes on boys, not getting along with her mom, and missing her dad who lives in Nashville. But that secret becomes harder to keep when Lark’s mother, a music record executive at her own label, announces that British boy band Abbey Road will be coming to live with them while they make their first album!
Sharing her L.A. house with three noisy, mischievous rising stars isn’t as glamorous as expected, especially when things aren’t going smoothly with the band members. When one of them plagiarizes one of Lark’s songs and passes it off as his own, will Lark gain the courage to step into the spotlight herself?
Snippet: They were just finishing up when she heard a loud thud, followed by a hoot of laughter outside her door.
“What was that?” her father asked.
“Our new houseguests,” said Lark, rolling her eyes. “Three teenaged boys from England. They were probably horsing around and accidentally knocked a painting off the wall, or maybe one of them got cheeky and broke another one’s nose.”
This casual report had her father looking stunned. “Did you just say ‘cheeky’?”
“Yeah. Sorry.”
“I don’t understand. Is this some sort of student exchange program for school?”
‘Nope. They’re a brand-new boy band Mama found in London. She just signed then to her label and now they’re living with us so she can keep a close watch on them and I guess save some money.”
“Oh, really?” Dad raised an eyebrow. “So my little girl is living in a house with three strange teenage males who need to have a close watch kept on them?”
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