{"id":12238,"date":"2021-09-14T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-14T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=12238"},"modified":"2021-09-14T15:25:58","modified_gmt":"2021-09-14T20:25:58","slug":"one-night-only-its-the-battle-of-the-bands-anthology-ed-by-lauren-gibaldi-eric-smith-ya-book-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=12238","title":{"rendered":"One night only! It’s the BATTLE OF THE BANDS anthology, ed. by Lauren Gibaldi & Eric Smith (YA book review)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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On stage, behind the scenes, in the audience,
taking tickets, selling merchandise –
all connected by local teen musicians!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sixteen authors bring us interlinking stories that center around the annual Battle of the Bands at a suburban New Jersey high school from many points of view.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Solo acts and long-standing bands<\/a>, breakups and first kisses, new friends and old grudges, family ties that bend and stretch (but will they break?).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most stories begin before The Big Night with characters appearing in more than one narrative, just like the overlapping circles of acquaintance at the high school\u2026 or the first-time interactions at the Battle itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Get this book now at your local library<\/a> or independent bookstore<\/a> – just published last week!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I rarely read books twice, but I honestly can’t wait to reread this one, now that I’ve met so many characters as they gather for the music, the friendship, and the best Battle of the Bands<\/em> ever!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What’s your favorite concert story?
**kmm<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Book Info<\/strong>: Battle of the Bands \/ Lauren Gilbaldi & Eric Smith, editors. Candlewick Press, 2021. ISBN 9781536214338 (Lauren’s site<\/a>) (Eric’s site<\/a>) (publisher site<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stories by Brittany Cavallaro, Preeti Chhibber, Jay Coles, Katie Cotugno, Lauren Gibaldi, Shaun David Hutchinson, Ashley Poston, Jenny Torres Sanchez, Sarah Nicole Smetana, Eric Smith, Jenn Marie Thorne, Sarvenaz Taghavian, Jasmine Warga, Ashley Woodfolk, and Jeff Zentner, and featuring Motion City Soundtrack\u2019s Justin Courtney Pierre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On stage, behind the scenes, in the audience,taking tickets, selling merchandise –all connected by local teen musicians! Sixteen authors bring us interlinking stories that center around the annual Battle of the Bands at a suburban New Jersey high school from many points of view. Solo acts and long-standing bands, breakups and first kisses, new friends […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[237,19],"tags":[22,4,5,16,18,44,39,49,86,213,15,9,21,226,57,35,143,8],"class_list":["post-12238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diverse-books","category-fiction","tag-behavior","tag-belonging","tag-coping","tag-determination","tag-family","tag-friendship","tag-love","tag-memories","tag-music","tag-new-jersey","tag-relationships","tag-school","tag-self-image","tag-short-stories","tag-sisters","tag-surprises","tag-theater","tag-us-author"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12238"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12248,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12238\/revisions\/12248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}