Musical Youth
2014
First Published
4.14
Average Rating
280
Number of Pages
Music, Discovery, Love. Can one summer make the difference of a lifetime? Zahara is a loner. She's brilliant on the guitar but in everyday life she doesn't really fit in. Then she meets Shaka, himself a musical genius and the first boy who really gets her. They discover that they share a special bond, their passion for music, and Zahara finds herself a part, not just of Shaka's life, but also that of his boys, the Lion Crew. When they all get roles in a summer musical, Zahara, Shaka, and the rest of the Lion Crew use the opportunity to work on a secret project. But the Crew gets much more than they bargained for when they uncover a dark secret linking Shaka and Zahara's families and they're forced to confront some uncomfortable truths about class, colour, and relationships on the Caribbean island of Antigua. Musical Youth placed second in the 2014 Burt Award for Caribbean Literature.
Avg Rating
4.14
Number of Ratings
58
5 STARS
41%
4 STARS
40%
3 STARS
14%
2 STARS
2%
1 STARS
3%
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Author
Joanne Hillhouse
Author · 3 books
Antiguan and Barbudan Joanne C. Hillhouse is the author of Musical Youth, 2nd placed for the inaugural Burt Award for teen/young adult Caribbean fiction and named one of Kirkus Reviews top 100 indie books of 2020, children's picture books With Grace, a Caribbean faerie tale, Lost! A Caribbean Sea Adventure, and The Jungle Outside, novel Oh Gad!, and novellas The Boy from Willow Bend and Dancing Nude in the Moonlight - the latter since reissued as a 10th anniversary edition with extras. For more, visit http://jhohadli.wordpress.com
