The Summer of Kicks

Starrphyre is your average sensitive-meets-dorky 16-year-old, with a tragic hippy name thanks to his parents - a live-to-air radio sex therapist mum and a bass player dad from a one-hit-wonder 80s metal band.

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All Starrphyre wants is one date with his dream girl, Candace McAllister. Or at least a meaningful conversation. But how can he get her to notice him when she's the leading lady of every other high-school guys' fantasies?

For Starrphyre, starting a band seems like the natural solution, but when your bandmates have the combined musical ability of a gang of armless monkeys, you really need a backup plan.

Audience
young adult
Length
medium · 264 pages

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