BRAND NEW! SIGNED Road Rash 1st Ed HCDJ Hardcover Mark Huntley Parsons R&R

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Road Rash

by Mark Huntley Parsons

Published by Knopf Books for Young Readers

FIRST EDITION HARDCOVER W/ DUST JACKET SIGNED BY AUTHOR MARK HUNTLEY PARSONS

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BRAND NEW 1st Edition Hardcover Book with Dust Jacket SIGNED BY AUTHOR MARK HUNTLEY PARSONS on the inside front cover! The binding is tight and all 352 pages within are bright white with no writing, underlining, high-lighting, rips, tears, bends, or folds. The covers look perfect! The dust jacket is in excellent condition with no rips, folds or tears, as can be seen in my photos. You will be happy with this one! Always handled carefully and packaged securely! Buy with confidence from a seller who takes the time to show you the details and not use just stock photos. Please check out all my pictures and email with any questions! Thanks for looking!

About the Book:

A teenage drummer finds out what life is really like on tour with a rock band in this funny and bittersweet YA novel. For anyone who loved Almost Famous or This Is Spinal Tap.

 

After being dropped from one band, sixteen-year-old drummer Zach gets a chance to go on tour with a much better band. It feels like sweet redemption, but this is one rocky road trip—filled with jealousy, rivalries, and on-stage meltdowns.

Mark Parsons has written a fast-paced, feel-good novel about a boy finding his place in the world, in a band, and in the music. Zach is a character teens will stand up and cheer for as he lands the perfect gig, and the perfect girl.

Some Book Reviews:

A must-read for young garage-band types.

—Booklist

 

Readers and especially musicians should enjoy debut novelist Parsons’s look at a band on the run.

—Publishers Weekly

 

A road-trip adventure in romance and friendship that is ultimately all about the music.

—Kirkus Reviews

I freakin’ love drumming. . . . There’s something about playing the drums that’s different from any other instrument. Maybe it’s the physical part. I mean, you’re generating sounds by hitting things.” Exuberant 17-year-old Zach has landed the summer job of a lifetime: drumming for an up-and-coming local rock band, whose members invite him on their first multicity gig. Between long, lonely nights on the open road, the crew stops at gritty rock clubs, swanky townie bars, and—after Zach nearly jeopardizes his musical future by taking a hugely ambitious risk—one fully packed arena. A valiant first-novel attempt by Parsons, this travelogue has spots of clunky pacing and underdeveloped dialogue, and drummer jokes interjected randomly throughout chapters further interrupt the slow, sometimes unrefined story line. Where Road Rash crescendos is in its treatment of tumultuous friendships among bandmates, confounding but transfixing first romances, exhilarating tastes of teenage travel freedom, and the passion for pursuing the dream of a future in music. A must-read for young garage-band types. Grades 9-12. 

—Lexi Walters Wright

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