Twin detectives Katie and Mickey suspect that the disappearance of a marching band before a parade is linked to an attempted robbery at the local bank.
Sammy wants to be a musician like his grandfather, but while the band he is in is self-destructing, Sammy is distracted by his grandfather's decline and confused feelings about his best friend--and his mother is too busy to help.
While sixteen-year-old Hen's family and friends try to make his supposed dreams of becoming a rock star come true, he deals with the reality of being in a band with an ex-girlfriend, a friendship that may become love, and his older sister's mysterious disappearance and reappearance.
When Callie interviews the band, Brass Rat, for her school newspaper, her feelings are ambivalent, but when all the children of Northampton begin to disappear on Halloween, she knows where the dangerous search must begin.
"Twelve-year-old Lily finds herself knee-deep in sugar and sheet music as she tries to juggle her responsibility to her bandmates and give her friend the best Sweet Thirteen party ever"--Provided by publisher.
Amalia, writing in her diary, shares her concerns over her friend Maggie's eating disorder, and her confusion over her feelings for Brendan, a new boy in school.
In 1969, young Jimmy Koprowski returns from his stint in the air force to his blue-collar Polish-American hometown, where he struggles to rebuild his life and find meaning in his traditional roots.
