Written as a college admission essay, eighteen-year-old Harry Jones recounts a childhood defined by the hideous scars he hid behind, and how forming a band brought self-confidence, friendship, and his first kiss.

High school freshman Jessica Walsh has yet another problem to solve in her capacity of Nightshade, California's virago woman warrior--some supernatural pied piper seems to be using her boyfriend and his band, Side Effects May Vary, and the other bands in Nightshade's Battle of the Bands to perform illegal and fatal things throughout town.

Grandma's enthusiastic one-woman washboard band captivates a number of neighboring animals and leads them to join her in making music.

"Four years after leaving town to make a name for himself as a composer, Gilbert Baty has returned temporarily to Falke, Kansas. Now, he's trying to keep everyone from learning the truth about his disastrous years in New York City. He hopes to start writing music again in Falke, but he can't help being distracted by Ava Flaming, the brown-eyed baker to whom he was briefly engaged before he ended things--and who still stirs feelings in him he knows...

George's cornet playing is too much for both his family and the band.

Jay and his group, the Lunar Ticks, prepare for a battle of the bands competition to win time in a recording studio.

A Japanese-American girl joins her new school's J-Pop club where they form an imitation band of their favorite girl group, coming together from different corners of the school to help and support one another along the way.

"Liana Sarkar lives and breathes music, hoping to follow in the footsteps of her A&R coordinator father. Maybe if she succeeds, he’ll finally give her the time of day instead of drowning himself in work to distract from the grief of her mother’s passing. When Liana accidentally sabotages an up-and-coming local band, Third Eye, she makes it her mission to steer them towards success—without them discovering her role in their setback. But as she...

After another night of girls, music and booze, seventeen-year-old pop star Darius Zaire falls out of bed and lands on the cruddy floor of his old bedroom. No mansion, no luxury cars, no platinum records. Now he's just ordinary Darren Zegers. Some kind of nightmare has erased everything that happened to change Darren the dweeb into Darius the multimillionaire. Now Darius has to face an ordinary day in the twelfth grade, suffering through remedial...

Keyboardist Jasmine, age eight, tries to convince her bandmates, Maggie, Becca, and Scarlet, to prove themselves in a Battle of the Bands competition, despite their poor equipment.