Category: Young Adult/Teen Publisher: John Brindley
ISBN-10: 0957417608
Type: Fiction
Pages: 242
Copyright: September 29, 2012
ISBN-13: 9780957417601
Sixteen-year-old Amy Peppercorn is singing, screaming, fronting the band "Car Crime", bursting onto the pop-scene - only this time she's for real.
Praise for Amy Peppercorn from readers published on Amazon:
5.0 out of 5 starsFast-moving, funny and gripping
When I first looked at this book, I thought "Well I'll try it, but I don't think it will be anything special". But I was VERY wrong!!! As they say - don't judge a book by it's cover - literally! Inside this book is an amazing story - funny and emotional at the same time.
It's about a girl who joins a band with two boys, her best friend and her best friend's horrible cousin, Kirsty. Her best friend Beccs is being made a real girly-girl by Kirsty, who is trying to get Beccs to be her best friend instead. They do their first gig and it's a BIG hit! So they try for stardom, and go to a recording studio. But there's a few big twists on the way and everything changes. The people around her are changing, her life is changing and she is changing. I was finding myself staying up late just to finish the chapter, only to find I couldn't stop without reading the next chapter and the next!
I would recommend this book to anyone of about 12+. It is fast-moving, exciting and a real must-read.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Sixteen-year-old Amy Peppercorn has a lot to scream about. Her best friend Beccs is being lured away by that hateful boy-beacon, Kirsty. School sucks. Her family are impossible to live with. Know the feeling? Then, although she SO didn't mean to, she falls under the spell of the cool, irresistible Ben and joins his band. Everything changes. Because Amy's scream is her fortune. She's going to be a pop sensation and she's on her way. There is glitz, and excitement. But secrets and startling revelations also unfold in a story that packs a huge emotional punch. Stardom has it's price, how much will Amy pay?
5.0 out of 5 stars
After reading the first book, Amy Peppercorn: Starry Eyed and Screaming, I was totally hooked. It’s a great feel-good book, but things change just like that, and it tells a great tale of Amy Peppercorn. Troubles and torments, through life's ups and downs. Just a great read!
5.0 out of 5 starsAmazing
This book is fantastic!!!
Its Interesting, funny, and emotional! John Brindley has really captured the essence of song and music- wicked!
Its not about a typical girl who wants to sing ...Amy Peppercorn has real substance.
Read it, read it, read it! For anyone who has dreams!
Excerpt
Yes, it is Amy, by the way. My full name? As if you didn’t know. It’s Amy Peppercorn, no middle name. Amy Peppercorn, and I’m not kidding. That really is what I’m called. I sound just like something out of my baby twin sisters’ storybooks, don’t I?
I’ve never met anybody with a name I’ve disliked more than my own. My best friend’s called Rebecca Bradley. She says she doesn’t like her name, but goes around calling herself Beccs Bradley, which always sounds really good. Her cousin’s called Kirsten, or Kirsty McCloud, a name that’s somehow got an American accent attached to it, I don’t know why – it just manages to sound dreamy.
But Amy Peppercorn? What can you do with it? My little sisters are called Georgina and Joanna Peppercorn. We sound like such a bunch of – a whole bunch of Peppercorns, don’t we?
Anyway, the best place to start telling you about what happened is the evening after school when Beccs and me decided to go and wind up the boys in the band, if you could call it a band.
Professional Reviews
MIZZ Magazine
"A must read for anyone who wants to be famous."
Online Pop News
"This is a true delight of a book! Ideal for all ages and particularly suited to teenagers. Once you pick it up you will not put it down until you are at the last page!"
LOVEREADING4KIDS
“Hopes and dreams of fame, a dream many children seek, forms the backdrop to this delightful novel of friendship and betrayal, of success and failure and learning to handle them all. It’s emotionally edgy but also a great deal of fun to read. A must read for anyone who wants to be famous.”
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