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“Readers will feel like they have insider information on what it is like to be in a band…This book will be enjoyed by teens who like music, poetry, or a good family story.”
-VOYA (Voice of Youth Advocates) “In this thoughtful tale, sibling rivalry is taken to the next level. Both Ori and Del prove to be likable characters in their own respective ways.” - School Library Journal “Ori’s honest voice will have readers caring about the outcome.” - Publishers Weekly “Vega has imbued her tale with well-developed characters…readers will appreciate Ori’s gently self-deprecating humor and the lively Web postings and texts woven throughout that help tell the story.” - Booklist “This is a smart, absorbing read about music, relationship complexities, and reconciliation.” - Kirkus Reviews Check out my interview with Carrie Brown-Wolf and this Podcast Interview with Books 4 Boyz! To share your thoughts on this book, go to the Rock On Blab page! |
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“It’s a welcome relief to have a girl and a boy in a book be true friends, just friends, strictly platonic, period. … It’s characters like these that make you either grateful for your best friend or make you wish you had a best friend.”
-Little Willow
“It would be easy to simply peg Rock On as an easy, breezy read about music and first love. But, like Jacyln Moriarty’s books, Vega’s collage-style novel…is a quick, entertaining read that features three-dimensional characters in occasionally hilariously-over-the-top (yet still believable) situations who deal realistically with complicated emotions.”
-Bookshelves of Doom
“The best thing about this story was the music, so anyone passionate about playing or listening to music will enjoy it.”
-Olivia Brett, NextGen
“I think Denise Vega did an excellent job of writing the voice of a geeky band boy… It’s funny and lighthearted with a sprinkling of serious moments thrown in and tossed together.”
- Kristen Evey
“Vega parlays her love of music — not many author bios cite a frequent-flyer card at Denver’s legendary Red Rocks amphitheater — into a lively, accessible take on sibling rivalry and surviving high school with a sense of self intact. Peppered with texts, Web posts and emails, “Rock On” just might be the quintessential summer read for the Live Music Capital of the World.”
-Sharyn Vane, statesman.com
“Engaging and smartly paced….Vega has a way with details, creating a pattern of incidents and emotional beats that builds assuredly to the final face-offs between bands and brothers. Likable three-dimensional characters and rock-solid friendships add considerable appeal to this feel-good tale.”
-The Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books
“Readers will feel like they have insider information on what it is like to be in a band…This book will be enjoyed by teens who like music, poetry, or a good family story.”
-VOYA (Voice of Youth Advocates)
“In this thoughtful tale, sibling rivalry is taken to the next level. Both Ori and Del prove to be likable characters in their own respective ways… A true strength of this title proves to be supporting character Gwyn, who is seamlessly integrated into the story without making her deafness debilitating.”
- School Library Journal
“Ori’s honest voice will have readers caring about the outcome…Blog entries from the band’s Web site are interspersed, giving an amusing glimpse of the drama among the band’s budding groupies, while third-person flashbacks to Ori’s younger days take readers behind the music—and behind Ori and Del’s strained relationship.”
- Publishers Weekly
“Vega has imbued her tale with well-developed characters…readers will appreciate Ori’s gently self-deprecating humor and the lively Web postings and texts woven throughout that help tell the story.”
-Booklist
“Ori is a three-dimensional, relatable protagonist whose first-person narrative conveys, with humor and heart, his hopes and insecurities, as well as his journey to find confidence and realize what matters, both onstage and off…This is a smart, absorbing read about music, relationship complexities, and reconciliation.”
-Kirkus Reviews
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