Nomination Post #23

[torigates]

Woah, it's the end of April already? how the heck did that happen? Nominations will be open until Thursday.

The theme for May will be books on your to-read list. Interpret this how you want, whether it's something lurking on your ereader or actual bookshelves that you haven't gotten around to yet, or just something that you've been looking for an

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[beth_shulman]

Doing the same as myr_soleil!

1. Name of book. A Little Wanting Song by Cath Crowley

2. Small blurb about the book. CHARLIE DUSKIN loves music, and she knows she's good at it. But she only sings when she's alone, on the moonlit porch or in the back room at Old Gus's Secondhand Record and CD Store. Charlie's mom and grandmother have both died, and this summer she's visiting her grandpa in the country, surrounded by ghosts and grieving family, and serving burgers to the local kids at the milk bar. She's got her iPod, her guitar, and all her recording equipment, but she wants more: A friend. A dad who notices her. The chance to show Dave Robbie that she's not entirely unspectacular.

ROSE BUTLER lives next door to Charlie's grandfather and spends her days watching cars pass on the freeway and hanging out with her troublemaker boyfriend. She loves Luke but can't wait to leave their small country town. And she's figured out a way: she's won a scholarship to a science school in the city, and now she has to convince her parents to let her go. This is where Charlie comes in. Charlie, who lives in the city, and whom Rose has ignored for years. Charlie, who just might be Rose's ticket out.

Told in alternating voices and filled with music, friendship, and romance, Charlie and Rose's "little wanting song" is about the kind of longing that begins as a heavy ache but ultimately makes us feel hopeful and wonderfully alive.

3. Why this book is awesome. No idea, since I haven't read it yet. Some things it does have going for it, though: 1) it's Aussie YA, which has a typically excellent track record, 2) it's Cath Crowley, who wrote the amazing fantastic wonderful Graffiti Moon. I've been meaning to read it for ages and just haven't gotten to it yet.