Don't Blame the Music

by Caroline B. Cooney

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Seventeen-year-old Susan looks forward eagerly to her senior year in high school but finds her comfortable assumptions and optimistic expectations of life and people shattered by the return home of her older sister, a failed rock singer with a bitter grudge against the family.

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one star for being as mind-numbingly dull and placid as you'd expect a book with this plot description to *not* be, with only an extra star because Ashley didn't kill the family dog like I feared she was going to. (

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Iowa Teen Award (Nominee – 1990)

Sequoyah Book Award (Nominee – Young Adult – 1989)

Young Hoosier Book Award (Nominee – Middle Grade – 1989)

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Best Fiction for Young Adults (Selection – 1986)

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1986-05

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Seventeen-year-old Susan looks forward eagerly to her senior year in high school but finds her comfortable assumptions and optimistic expectations of life and people shattered by the return home of her older sister, a failed rock singer with a bitter grudge against the family.

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