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Find your voice, overcome challenges, and heal with music and friendship.
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  • Hardcover

    272 pages

  • Release Date

    31 March 2027

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Summary

Madge from Muffled gets her own story in this companion coming-of-age middle grade novel about rediscovering your voice, overcoming challenges in school, facing loss, and experiencing the ups and downs of friendship.

Madge Hesse is the best sixth grade trombonist, and getting into the middle school elite jazz ensemble proves it. She plans to become a professional musician like her mother, who died when Madge was one. Her best friend Amelia doesn’t get in, tho…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781665988438
ISBN-10:1665988436
Author:Jennifer Gennari
Publisher:Simon & Schuster
Imprint:Beach Lane Books
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:272
Release Date:31 March 2027
Weight:354g
Dimensions:25mm x 140mm x 210mm
Series:The Band Kids
Audience Age:8-12
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B-Format
Stifled by Jennifer Gennari - ISBN: 9781665988438
140 × 210 mm
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A4
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Critics Review

“Gennari realistically and sensitively explores tough topics including censorship and grief…Poignant and insightful.” – Kirkus Reviews
“Stifled by Jennifer Gennari is a thought-provoking story of shifting friendships, loss, intergenerational love, and boldly finding yourself. Readers will root for Madge as she shares her voice, her heart, and music to stand up for what she truly believes in.” —Elly Swartz, author of Same Page
“This timely and honest novel hits all the right notes. Madge’s struggle with self-doubt and changing friendships will strongly resonate with readers. Gennari beautifully weaves together so many chords to show the highs and lows of transitioning to middle school.” —Lisa Moore Ramée, author of A Good Kind of Trouble

About The Author

Jennifer Gennari

Jennifer Gennari is the author of Muffled, a Junior Library Guild selection and Georgia Children’s Book Award finalist, and My Mixed-Up Berry Blue Summer, a Bank Street Best Children’s Books of the Year selection and an ALA Rainbow title.

When she’s not reading or writing books, she stands up for the right to read. A graduate of Vermont College of Fine Arts, she and her husband divide their time between Vermont and the San Francisco Bay Area.

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