{"id":1991,"date":"2008-05-11T17:06:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-11T17:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=1991"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:28:58","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:28:58","slug":"geeky-band-gir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=1991","title":{"rendered":"Geeky Band Girl"},"content":{"rendered":"

Band Geek Love<\/a>
By Josie Bloss<\/p>\n

Her trumpet section thinks she\u2019s scary. She screams a lot and constantly threatens them. She\u2019s a COMPLETE obsessive control freak. Ellie Snow couldn\u2019t care less. Ever since that day freshman year when she made such a fool of herself over her best friend\u2019s older brother — in front of everyone at band camp — Ellie\u2019s shut down the dating drama, said bye-bye to boys, and has been driven toward her goal \u2013to shine as the best trumpeter in her high school history. She\u2019s section leader of the trumpets and first chair in band, and after four years of avoiding the emotional chaos of the hell known as High School, she\u2019s on her way out.<\/p>\n

Marching band means everything to Ellie \u2013 the strict cadences, right angles, and <\/a>creased, perfect uniforms have been an oasis of sanity in her life. It may be out of balance to be All Band, All the Time, but if you say anything to Ellie about it, she might just go upside your head with her instrument. This is her life the way she likes it. Her goal is to make her Senior year be perfect \u2013 down to her trumpet solo at Homecoming \u2013 and nothing and no one will get in her way.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, all of Ellie\u2019s plans are about to go up in flames.<\/p>\n

You can control the way you play the trumpet. You can how much you practice, and you can control the way you march. You can\u2019t control your heart, and Ellie\u2019s has just started racing.<\/p>\n

Connor Higgins is tall and gorgeous and plays trumpet like a pro. He likes her. And he\u2019s a \u2026sophomore. And if that isn\u2019t enough, the boy she made a fool of herself over is\u2026 back.<\/p>\n

Ellie\u2019s in way over her head, and everything is out of control.<\/p>\n

Readers may want to throttle acid-tongued Ellie because her perfectionism and cluelessness can be tiresome and at times she\u2019s simply flat out mean. She\u2019s not the most sympathetic of narrators, but when four years worth of drama catches up with her, Ellie\u2019s insecurities as she negotiates the new world of emotions are pathetic and realistic. Anyone who has tried to control what other people think of them will recognize the flailing and freaking out that Ellie does as she realizes that the world is what it is, and she\u2019s not in control of anything.<\/p>\n

Connor Higgins at times comes across at times as ridiculously well-rounded, mature and wise for fifteen, and Ellie\u2019s parents are conveniently one-dimensional until the end of the novel, but taken all together, this is a bumbling, geeky little love story that may make you smile.<\/p>\n

This review was first published in the March\/April ’08 issue of The Edge of the Forest<\/a> Children’s Literature Monthly. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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