I was drawn to Piper right away - she's a sympathetic character, strong and sassy and a little self-deprecating. This is a story with a lot of heart and the tone's a really nice mix of humorous and serious. As Piper gets to know the five flavors of Dumb, she'll learn more about rock and roll and about herself than she ever would have guessed. It's everything she wanted - her ticket to fame and fortune - but she'll have to get them a paying gig before the first month is over or she's fired. And somehow she ends up accepting a job as their manager. She doesn't have to hear to know that they're completely not together, "all style, no substance". Maybe that's why she opens her big mouth after the newest winners of Seattle's Teen Battle of the Bands serenade everyone on the steps of the school one morning. Piper feels like no one listens to what she has to say and now that her dream of going to Gallaudet University, a deaf college in DC, is on precarious ground, maybe no one ever will. And, worst of all, she finds out that her parents "borrowed" money from her college fund to pay for her baby sister's cochlear implants - surgical devices that will give hearing to Grace. Her dad refused to learn to sign when she lost her hearing at the age of six, even though it's how she prefers to communicate.
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