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|title=This Song Will Save Your Life
|author=Leila Sales
|publisher=Macmillan Children's Books
|date=October 2013
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|website=http://www.leilasales.com
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|summary=This is one that really, really needs a sixth star. The best of an outstanding year for YA contemporary novels, it's an emotional, sometimes brutal, but ultimately hopeful read with an amazing voice. An absolute must read. Leila Sales popped into Bookbag Towers to [[The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Leila Sales|chat to us]].
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Elise is a fragile girl who's never felt like she fitted in anywhere. Shuttled between her divorced parents, she's desperate to be popular at school but can't work out how. Then a chance event leads to her DJ'ing in Start, a hot underground nightclub and her life suddenly improves dramatically - but can she really leave behind her old self, or are the bullies who make her feel like there's nothing worthwhile about her life right all along?
This review was kindly given to us by the ever-generous [http://yayeahyeah.blogspot.com/ Ya Yeah Yeah]
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|name= Nigethan
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|comment= Great review and great recommendation! I never thought a book would make me feel quite as intensely as The Sky is Everywhere did, but Elise's story is such a stunningly beautiful one filled with both incredibly sad and wonderfully uplifting moments all told through a voice that is so thoughtful and incredibly sincere that it never felt like I was merely just reading words on a page.
And I totally agree with you about the quality taste of music. So many of my favourite novels have music as a key component: the aforementioned, The Sky is Everywhere, You Don't Know Me, Gayle Foreman's If I Stay, and Kevin Brooks' Naked, to name a few, but This Song Will Save Your Life, for me, tops them all in the music department.
This really is a six star book!
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