Rock Band: Music and Misfits by Leah Osakwe
Rock Band: Music and Misfits is an entertaining, music-focused story that younger teens will easily connect with. The story is a smart, funny journey with engaging friendship drama.
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Leah Osakwe is a children’s author and UX writer. Her fiction includes the middle-grade series Absolutely Nonny – beginning with Nonny’s Birthday Bash: Confetti & Catastrophe and Nonny’s Puppy Love: Bust-ups & Boy Drama – and the standalone title Rock Band: Music and Misfits.
Osakwe also writes for younger readers in the Little Voices board-book range published by Little Tiger/Tiger Tales. Titles include Let’s Make Friends, Let’s Be Brave, How We Share and How We Feel, with illustrations by Becky Paige.
How We Feel and How We Share were published in August 2024.
Rock Band: Music and Misfits is an entertaining, music-focused story that younger teens will easily connect with. The story is a smart, funny journey with engaging friendship drama.
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