Keeping the Beat (ISBN 9781771387309) by Marie Powell and Jeff Norton follows a group of seventeen year old English school girls as they form a band, enter a reality TV contest, win and travel to L.A. and eventually go to the international finals in Las Vegas. What starts as an entertainingly engaging television-like story of sex, drugs and rock and roll (tempered with teenage romance and dreams of stardom, peppered with issues such as body image, date rape and drunk driving) evolves into an insightful examination of human relationships, coping with loss, and learning what it means to grow up. A good read for its 13-18 year old target audience.
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