Muted
Scholastic Inc. · Paperback · May 3, 2022
A ripped-from-the-headlines novel of ambition, music, and innocence lost, perfect for fans of Elizabeth Acevedo and Jason Reynolds!
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- Who it’s for
- A tense, intimate look at how a music dream can become a struggle for control.
- Genres
- Music Stories for Teens, Novels in Verse for Teens, YA LGBTQ+
- Published
- Scholastic Inc., May 3, 2022
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A ripped-from-the-headlines novel of ambition, music, and innocence lost, perfect for fans of Elizabeth Acevedo and Jason Reynolds! Be bold. Get seen. Be Heard. For seventeen-year-old Denver, music is everything. Writing, performing, and her ultimate goal: escaping her very small, very white hometown. So Denver is more than ready on the day she and her best friends Dali and Shak sing their way into the orbit of the biggest R&B star in the world, Sean "Mercury" Ellis.
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Merc gives them everything: parties, perks, wild nights -- plus hours and hours in the recording studio. Even the painful sacrifices and the lies the girls have to tell are all worth it. Until they're not. Denver begins to realize that she's trapped in Merc's world, struggling to hold on to her own voice. As the dream turns into a nightmare, she must make a choice: lose her big break, or get broken. Inspired by true events, Muted is a fearless exploration of the dark side of the music industry, the business of exploitation, how a girl's dreams can be used against her -- and what it takes to fight back.
When Dreams Turn
A tense, intimate look at how a music dream can become a struggle for control.
Come here for
- Music ambition with a sharp edge
- A young artist fighting to keep her own voice
Expect
- The pull of big breaks and costly compromises
- A story about exploitation, lost innocence, and fighting back
Where it sits
| Music Stories for Teens | 61% |
|---|---|
| Novels in Verse for Teens | 53% |
| YA LGBTQ+ | 46% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Music Stories for Teens
- YA Poetry
- Surviving Sexual Abuse
- Authors
- MSS Tami Charles, Tami Charles
- Publisher
- Scholastic Inc.
- Published
- May 3, 2022
- Format
- Paperback
- Reading lane
- Music Stories for Teens