Alamosa Public Library

A "sweet story of two different loners finding their counterpoint" (School Library Journal) from a star of state master and children's choice lists making her YA debut. Clean YA with the emotional resonancy of John Green and Sarah Dessen.On odd days, Tripp Broody uses a school practice room to let loose on a borrowed guitar. Eyes closed, strumming that beat-up instrument, Tripp escapes to a world where only the music matters.On even days, Lyla Marks...

After being assigned to perform community service at a nursing home, sixteen-year-old Alex befriends a cantankerous old man who has some lessons to impart about jazz guitar playing, love, and forgiveness.

George accidentally breaks the man in the yellow hat's guitar right before the man is going to join the Uptown Bluegrass Band for a good old-fashioned country hoedown, so George and Allie build a new guitar with a unique sound.

"In this novel for teens, Jolene copes with her brother's disappearance by playing his guitars and shutting herself away from the world."-- Jolene's mother is a tanning-salon manager who believes she can channel her karaoke habit into a professional singing career. Jolene's dad, a failed bass player, has gone back to the family demolition business. But Jolene and her big brother, Matt, are true musicians, writing songs together that make everything...

As Seattle sixteen-year-old Jonathan helps a dying man come to terms with a tragic event he experienced during World War II, Jonathan begins facing his own demons, especially the death of his twin brother, helped by an assortment of friends, old and new.