Francine starts a rock band, hoping it will focus on music rather than money and fame.

When Pete, a talented bass player, moves from playing in the high school jazz band to playing in a popular rock group, he finds the experience exhilarating even as his new fame jeopardizes his relationship with girlfriend Margaret. Music is Pete's life. He's happiest when he's playing his Fender Precision bass, whether he's jamming with his dad at 2 a.m. or covering Top 40 hits. Pete doesn't care about playing the hottest club or getting the cutest...

At the end of the day, while Farmer Joe gets ready for bed, his animals tune their instruments to perform in a big concert as a rock band called Punk Farm.

Leah Burke is an anomaly in her friend group: the only child of a young, single mom; her life is decidedly less privileged. She loves to draw but is too self-conscious to show it. And even though her mom knows she's bisexual, she hasn't mustered the courage to tell her friends-- not even her openly gay BFF, Simon. When her rock-solid friend group starts to fracture in unexpected ways, it's hard for Leah to strike the right note. And with prom and...

Playing a variety of musical instruments, an all-animal touring concert group introduces words that are spelled the same but sound differently and have different meanings, such as tear (to cry) and tear (to rip).

"Eran diez los mariachis. Ahora solo quedan nueve. Ay, caramba, ¿qué pasó? ¡La guitarra se rompió! Cuenta hacia atrás con esta simpática banda de diez mariachis."--P. [4] of cover.

A series of events, some seemingly very insignificant, lead to a young girl attending a life-changing concert.

Spurred by a special project from her social studies teacher, seventh-grader Bethesda Fielding uncovers the secret identity of her music teacher, which leads to a most unusual concert performance and a tutoring assignment.

An angry, grieving seventeen-year-old musician facing expulsion from her prestigious Brooklyn private school travels to Paris to complete a school assignment and uncovers a diary written during the French revolution by a young actress attempting to help a tortured, imprisoned little boy--Louis Charles, the lost king of France.

Eleven-year-old Fig enrolls in an art class to better understand her father, a composer and pianist whose mental illness she tries to conceal from classmates, neighbors, and social services.--