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August 2009
On Sale: July 21, 2009
Featuring: Kara McNaughton
304 pages
ISBN: 1439102821
EAN: 9781439102824
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Young Adult
Ballads are the kind of songs that Kara McNaughton likes
best. Not the cliched ones where a diva hits her highest
note or a rock band tones it down a couple of notches for
the ladies, but the true ballads: the punk rocker or the
country crooner telling the story of their life in three
minutes, the chorus reminding their listeners of the
numerous ways to screw things up. In high school, Kara
helped maintain the "Stories of Suburbia" notebook, which
contained newspaper articles about bizarre and often tragic
events from suburbs all over and personal vignettes that
Kara dubbed "ballads" written by her friends in Oak Park, a
suburb of Chicago. Those "ballads" were heartbreakingly
honest tales of the moments when life changes and a kid is
forced to grow up too soon. But Kara never wrote her own
ballad. Before she could figure out what her song was about,
she was leaving town after a series of disastrous events at
the end of her junior year. Four years later, Kara returns
to face the music, and tells the tale of her first three
years of high school with her friends' "ballads"
interspersed throughout.
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