With stories by Brittany Cavallaro, Preeti Chhibber, Jay Coles, Katie Cotugno, Lauren Gibaldi, Shaun David Hutchinson, Ashley Poston, Jenny Torres Sanchez, Sarah Nicole Smetana, Eric Smith, Jenn Marie Thorne, Sarvenaz Taghavian, Jasmine Warga, Ashley Woodfolk, and Jeff Zentner, and featuring Motion City Soundtrack’s Justin Courtney Pierre.

Featuring an entry from Justin Courtney Pierre, lead vocalist of Motion City Soundtrack, Battle of the Bands is a celebration of youth, music, and meeting the challenges of life head-on. Told in a harmonic blend of first- and third-person narrative voices, roughly chronological short stories offer a kaleidoscopic view of the same transformative night. In this live-out-loud anthology, the disparate protagonists of sixteen stories are thrown together for one unforgettable event: their high school’s battle of the bands. A singer-songwriter struggles to untangle her feelings for her best friend and his girlfriend. A stage manager tires of being behind the scenes. An almost-famous songwriter nurses old wounds. A lonely ticket taker worries about his sister. IndieBoundįifteen young adult authors and one real-life rock star band together for one epic - and interconnected - take on a memorable high school rite of passage.Ī daughter of rock ’n’ roll royalty has a secret crush.Publication Date September 7th 2021 by Candlewickįind It On Goodreads

Chasing Stars by Alex K. Thorne