So Punk Rock: (and Other Ways to Disappoint Your Mother) : a Novel
- ISBN-10
- 0738714712
- ISBN-13
- 9780738714714
- Category
- Juvenile Fiction
- Pages
- 246
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2009
- Publisher
- Llewellyn Worldwide
- Author
- Micol Ostow
Description
Four suburban New Jersey students from the Leo R. Gittleman Jewish Day School form a rock band that becomes inexplicably popular, creating exhilaration, friction, confrontation, and soul-searching among its members. Original.
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