The First Rule of Punk
New York, New York : Viking, 2017.
Format: Book
Description: 310 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Twelve-year-old María Luisa O'Neill-Morales (who really prefers to be called Malú) reluctantly moves with her Mexican-American mother to Chicago and starts seventh grade with a bang--violating the dress code with her punk rock aesthetic and spurning the middle school's most popular girl in favor of starting a band with a group of like-minded weirdos.
Subjects:
Individuality -- Juvenile fiction.
Friendship -- Juvenile fiction.
Mexican Americans -- Juvenile fiction.
Punk rock music -- Juvenile fiction.
Bands (Music) -- Juvenile fiction.
Middle schools -- Juvenile fiction.
Schools -- Juvenile fiction.
Chicago (Ill.) -- Juvenile fiction.
Individuality -- Juvenile fiction.
Friendship -- Juvenile fiction.
Mexican Americans -- Juvenile fiction.
Punk rock music -- Juvenile fiction.
Bands (Music) -- Juvenile fiction.
Middle schools -- Juvenile fiction.
Schools -- Juvenile fiction.
Chicago (Ill.) -- Juvenile fiction.
Target Audience: 670L
ISBN:
9780425290408 (hardback)
Pura Belpré Children's Author Honor, 2018.