On stage is the last place on Earth Kira, Jake, or Eugene want to be. "I'm not a human jukebox," Kira tells her dad, "or a dancing doll, or a puppet, where you press a button and I'll entertain you!" Yet since arriving in New York City, she's had to sing "Amazing Grace" and "Me and Bobby McGee" with him and her two little brothers, Chris and Charlie, for handouts on a subway platform. Singing like an angel.
Wanting to stop singing forever. Jake sings, but only in his dreams. In real life he'll do anything to keep his mouth shut because of his stutter.
Eugene's greatest dream is that the world will laugh with him and not at him. Eugene sings like a foghorn. Ms.
Hill, the school's music teacher, has ambitions for them all. "My alto section could use some boys," she tells Jake and Eugene after they've been thrown out of the lunchroom for a kimchi incident, and she spots them eyeing her poster: is there a singer inside you trying to get out? you know you want to sing. join the chorus! "Uh, I don't think that would be us," Eugene says.
"We're nonjoiners. Trust me. This works for everyone." Until Jake meets Kira.
| ISBN: | 9781481429016 |
| Publication date: | 26th February 2014 |
| Author: | Douglas Jantzen |
| Illustrator: | Jean Claude |
| Publisher: | Atheneum Books for Young Readers an imprint of Simon & Schuster |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 304 pages |
| Genres: |
Children's and Young Adult Fiction Children’s / Teenage fiction: General, modern and contemporary fiction Drama / Performing Arts Children’s / Teenage general interest: City and town life Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Friends and friendships |
On stage is the last place on Earth Kira, Jake, or Eugene want to be. Singing like an angel.
Lucky Stars features in the following genres: Children's and Young Adult Fiction, Children’s / Teenage fiction: General, modern and contemporary fiction, Drama / Performing Arts, Children’s / Teenage general interest: City and town life, Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Friends and friendships
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Lucky Stars was written by Douglas Jantzen and published by Atheneum Books for Young Readers an imprint of Simon & Schuster
Lucky Stars has 304 pages