VIP: I'm With the Band

Name: VIP: I'm With the Band
Brand: Hachette Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Jen Calonita
ISBN: 9781478960805

Author: Jen Calonita

Series: VIP #1

Narrator: Tara Sands

Unabridged: 4 hr 10 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Little, Brown Young Readers

Published: 12/01/2015

Categories: Children's Fiction, Performing Arts Stories, Children's Social Themes

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included

Synopsis

Twelve-year-old Mackenzie "Mac" Lowell's dreams are about to come true. Thanks to her mom scoring the coolest job EVER, Mac is going from boy band fanatic to official tour member of her favorite group, Perfect Storm. Thankfully she's brought along her journal so she can record every moment, every breath, and every one of lead singer Zander Welling's killer smiles in written detail and doodles throughout the pages.
But between a zillion tour stops and pranks-gone-wrong, Zander and his fellow band members Heath and Kyle become more like brothers to Mac. Which makes it all the worse when the boys' differences start to drive them apart. Can Perfect Storm's biggest fan remind them why they're perfect together? It'll be up to Mac--and her comic book alter-ego Mac Attack--to keep the band together and on the road to stardom.
Chronicling her experiences on tour, Mac's journal springs to life with black-and-white illustrations and comic book panels throughout its pages.

About Jen Calonita

Jen Calonita is a former entertainment editor at a teen magazine who started out her career chronicling backstage life at concerts with Justin Timberlake and interviewing Zac Efron on film sets. The award-winning author of the Secrets of My Hollywood Life series and the Belles series, she lives with her husband, two sons, and their Chihuahua, Captain Jack Sparrow, in Merrick, New York. For more information, visit jencalonitaonline.com.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Stephanie on November 14, 2016

Have you ever been absolutely in love with a boy band? And then you discover you get to meet them because your mom is their new manager?! Not only that, you get to go on a road tour with them!? Well, that is exactly what happens to Mac in I'm With the Band. As far as she is concerned she is Perfect S......more

Goodreads review by BookCupid on January 05, 2016

Who can resist boy bands? Certainly not Mac who has been a huge fan of Perfect Storm (PS) before they were a hit. Mac knows everything about them -- from eating habits to favorite colors -- and dreams of going to her Spring Fling dance with the lead singer, Zander. But when a sudden turn of events ca......more

Goodreads review by Jeff on December 01, 2015

I don't know why the "I'm with X famous people" stories feel like a throwback these days, given that they still have a lot of life in sports books for kids, but I'm With the Band, the first entry in a new middle grade series, does both feel modern while also feeling like a throwback. It follows the......more

Goodreads review by Mehsi on March 02, 2017

5+ stars! SQUUEEEEE!!! Um, oops, sorry, but this book is just too adorbs, and I loved each and every bit of it!!! Before I start with all the good stuff, I want to mention that the blurb is pretty much lying. She doesn't really see the guys as her brothers, her love interest is just moving to another......more

Goodreads review by Michelle on July 19, 2016

This review can also be found on A Thousand Lives Lived, check it out for more! My sister is obsessed with this series, guys. My sister is not a reader whatsoever unless my mom tells her to read, so her adoring VIP: I'm With the Band was something new and interesting for me because I am the reader in......more

Quotes

Praise for VIP: I'm With the Band:"Hot boy banders? Backstage drama? And a butt-kicking comic book heroine? VIP I'm With the Band is an all-access pass to fun! Don't miss the debut of Jen Calonita's dishy new series!"—Megan McCafferty, author of the Jessica Darling's It List series