I wish I was 16 again so I could fully appreciate this for what it was. ( )

My god, this is so perfect. So so GOOD.
So totally awesome.
I was so hooked, that it took me only under 3 (three) hours to read.

Fist of all, it's honest. That's what I like.
And then - it kind of hit me like a bullet train. Swept off my feet, suspended in the air before I soar.
And then... There's MUSIC

Gotta read it, yeah you should

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Elise has been bullied at school forever and is getting quietly desperate. Then she stumbles upon a secret nighttime warehouse dance party and meets dreamy Char (short for “DJ This Charming Man”), who teaches her to be a DJ. Elise’s life is completely transformed by music and meeting people who. . . it’s not that they don’t care about being cool, they just have a wildly different sense of what being cool means. ( )

Review to come. If you liked the book, I think you'll want to stay away... ( )

Elise has talent and issues. She must decide which she’ll allow to come to the forefront as her school life and her night life start to merge. Should she stay invisible? Or be who she’s meant to be?

I laughed out loud reading this book, earning myself funny looks from the freshman walking by my desk.* It’s for anyone who ever felt like a misfit, an outsider, or someone who is waiting for their “real life” to start. Ms. Sales, the author, clearly remembers high school, its various players, and the rumor mill. The parents are a bit clueless, but sympathetic characters who clearly love their daughter. Yea.

Several of my students read this last year and liked it. We’ll look for more from this author.

*p. 76 Then I went in to get scoliosis-tested, and it turns out I don’t have scoliosis, so that was one success. But also I wasn’t wearing a bra today, which Lizzie Reardon noticed as I was putting my shirt back on after the scoliosis test, so by the end of the day, everyone at school had heard that I was probably a lesbian. Because if there’s one thing we know about lesbians, it’s that none of them wear bras.
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