That’s Mira M. And this is the story of her unforgettable life — as a kid alone in a junkyard tire swing, to her escape from Croatia at age 9 in a Marshall amp road case in the rear of her uncle Lou’s van. A musician, he hands her the key to her future: a guitar. When she’s 14, Mira meets Melody, Rosa and Jackson, three teens who stow away from Ghana in a ship-ping container and end up — to their surprise — in Hamburg, Germany. What stories they have! And what a story the four of them, plus Kralle (a little older and wiser) and Zucka (the record producer’s son), share on the way to the fame that all of them covet — except Mira, even after the MTV Awards show in Barcelona. Her song lyrics tell her truth. But are they her lyrics? Her music? She swears so. But who listens, now that she’s 18 — and dead?

Related: Croatia, Germany, Ghana, Realistic Fiction, Spain, Young Adult (ages 14-18)

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• ISBN: 9781416911760
• Author: Chotjewitz, David
• Translator: Orgel, Doris
• Published: 2008, Atheneum/Richard Jackson Books
• Themes: Death, fame, Friendship, Music, musician
• Descriptors: Croatia, Germany, Ghana, Realistic Fiction, Spain, Young Adult (ages 14-18)
• No. of pages: 272