When the Beat Drops

Name: When the Beat Drops
ISBN: 9781510733336

Anna Hecker

Sky Pony · Hardcover · May 15, 2018

It's time to face the music.

Contemporary YA Romance Music Stories for Teens Dance Stories for Teens young

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Who it’s for: Jazz ambition meets dance-floor discovery in a music-filled summer that changes Mira’s priorities.
Themes: Musical identity, Family relationships, Friendship and trust
Genres: Music Stories for Teens, Contemporary YA Romance, Dance Stories for Teens

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About this book

It's time to face the music. Seventeen-year-old Mira has always danced to her own beat. A music prodigy in a family of athletes, she'd rather play trumpet than play ball—and with her audition to a prestigious jazz conservatory just around the corner (and her two best friends at music camp without her), she plans to spend the summer focused on jazz and nothing else. She only goes to the warehouse party in a last-ditch effort to bond with her older sister.

Instead, she falls in love with dance music, DJing... and Derek, a gorgeous promoter who thinks he can make her a star. Suddenly, trumpet practice and old friendships are taking a back seat to packed dance floors and sun-soaked music festivals, outsized personalities and endless beats. But when a devastating tragedy plunges her golden summer into darkness, Mira discovers just how little she knows about her new boyfriend, her old friends, and even her own sister. Music brought them together. Will it also tear them apart?

Two Beats, One Summer

Jazz ambition meets dance-floor discovery in a music-filled summer that changes Mira’s priorities.

Come here for

The pull between trumpet practice and the rush of DJing
Music, friendship, and first-love complications

Expect

A summer of packed dance floors and shifting loyalties
A turn from sunlit festivals toward grief and hard questions

Where it sits

Contemporary YA Romance	92%
Music Stories for Teens	60%
Dance Stories for Teens	33%

Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.

Publisher categories

Coming of Age
YA Sibling Stories
Music Stories for Teens
Dating & Sex for Teens

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Addiction & Substance Use for Teens
Friendship for Teens

Authors: Anna Hecker
Publisher: Sky Pony
Published: May 15, 2018
Format: Hardcover
Theme: Musical identity · Family relationships · Friendship and trust
Reading lane: Coming of Age