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Tribute to Another Dead Rock Star Sunburst Edition
Contributor(s): Powell (Author), Powell, Randy (Author)

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ISBN: 0374479682     ISBN-13: 9780374479688
Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL
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Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: September 2003
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Annotation: Grady is skateboarding toward a major decision
No longer able to live with his grandmother, fifteen-year-old Grady Grennan has to find a new address. one option is to move in with his mentally disabled half brother, Louie, in Seattle. But that poses a problem: Louie's adoptive mother, Vickie, and Grady are about as compatible as Mozart and heavy metal.
Nevertheless, Grady's testing the waters. He's in Seattle for a concert tribute to his and Louie's mother, a grunge rock icon who died three years ago. Grady has been invited to speak at the tribute, but what is he supposed to say to thousands of adoring fans about a mother who abandoned her sons in favor of a musical career?
Both humorous and deeply moving, Tribute to Another Dead Rock Star poses challenging, provocative questions to all sorts of readers -- cynics, liberals, slackers, and rock stars included.

Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Young Adult Fiction | Family - Parents
- Young Adult Fiction | Performing Arts - Music
- Young Adult Fiction | Social Themes - Death, Grief, Bereavement
Dewey: FIC
Age Level: 12-18
Grade Level: 7-13
Lexile Measure: 720(Not Available)
Physical Information: 0.56" H x 5.04" W x 7.84" L (0.45 lbs) 224 pages
Themes:
- Geographic Orientation - Washington
- Locality - Seattle-Bellevue-Everett, Wa
- Topical - Mentally Challenged
- Cultural Region - Pacific Northwest
- Cultural Region - Western U.S.
Features: Ikids, Price on Product
Review Citations: Kliatt 09/01/2003 pg. 20
PW Notes and Reprints 10/13/2003 pg. 82
Publishers Weekly 10/13/2003
Accelerated Reader Info
Quiz #: 29950
Reading Level: 4.4   Interest Level: Upper Grades   Point Value: 6.0
 
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Grady is skateboarding toward a major decision

No longer able to live with his grandmother, fifteen-year-old Grady Grennan has to find a new address. one option is to move in with his mentally disabled half brother, Louie, in Seattle. But that poses a problem: Louie's adoptive mother, Vickie, and Grady are about as compatible as Mozart and heavy metal.

Nevertheless, Grady's testing the waters. He's in Seattle for a concert tribute to his and Louie's mother, a grunge rock icon who died three years ago. Grady has been invited to speak at the tribute, but what is he supposed to say to thousands of adoring fans about a mother who abandoned her sons in favor of a musical career?

Both humorous and deeply moving, Tribute to Another Dead Rock Star poses challenging, provocative questions to all sorts of readers -- cynics, liberals, slackers, and rock stars included.


Contributor Bio(s): Powell, Randy: -

Randy Powell

I've lived in Seattle all my life -- since 1956. I live here now with my wife, Judy, and our two sons, Eli and Drew. I like the outdoors, books, fresh crab and raw oysters, and rain.

As a kid, I was crazy about sports. All sports. When I wasn't playing the real thing, I was playing some imaginary form of it. I wasn't a great athlete, just obsessed. I peaked when I was eleven. Our little league football team won the city championship, and the coach gave me the game ball. I lost that ball a few years later. I'm still looking for it.
I had fun reading and writing. When I found a book I liked, I threw myself into it, into the main character's skin. I'd try to write in the author's style. Writing was hard work, but what a rush it gave me, coming up with the right phrase, finishing a piece and feeling it click, reading it to the class and getting some laughs.

In high school, in the early 1970s, my hero was Arthur Ashe, the tennis pro. I concentrated on tennis and worked hard at it, but not hard enough. Today it's still my game of choice, and I still don't work hard enough.

High school is also where I became serious about writing. I became even more so in college, at the University of Washington. I made two trips to Europe, worked summers in Alaska as a deckhand on a fishing boat, and wrote short stories, novels, and even formula romances.

After college, I got a job teaching at an alternative school for junior high and high school dropouts. I taught for four years and loved it, but finally left because it ate up my writing time.

My breakthrough in writing came when I learned to look inside myself and write about the things I cared and felt deeply about. I guess it was only natural that my first published novel, My Underrated Year, should be about a high school football and tennis player. Yes, there's a lot of myself in that book, although hardly any of the incidents actually happened. That's true of my other books as well.

I enjoy visiting schools and talking to students about writing. I also love hearing from readers. You can write to me in care of my publisher, Farrar, Straus and Giroux. I promise I'll write back!


 
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