Tribute to Another Dead Rock Star

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Tribute to Another Dead Rock Star

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Grady is fifteen. He is traveling back to Seattle to participate in a tribute to his mother, Debbie Grennan, a rock star who passed away three years ago. He has been living with his grandmother, but now needs to find someplace else to stay as his grandmother remarried and will be traveling in an RV. He has a half-brother, Louie, who is mentally retarded. Louie and his family live in Seattle . Grady must decide whether or not he wants to live with them permanently.

Read this book to find out whether or not Grady and Louie are able to get along. Can Grady learn to get along with Mitch and Vickie who will become his parents if he wants them to? Can they all learn to work together to make a family? Find out what Grady has to say about his mother at the tribute.

By Randy Powell. New York, NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 1999. 215 Pages. Fiction. Suggested ages 9+. (Sibling with a disability)

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