The Girl Who Became a Beatle
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Publisher Description
She loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah!
When Regina Bloomsbury's band, the Caverns, breaks up, she thinks it's all over. And then she makes a wish—"I wish I could be as famous as the Beatles."
The Beatles are her music idols. The next day, she gets up to find that the Caverns are not just as famous as the Beatles, they have replaced them in history! Regina is living like a rock star, and loving it. There are talk shows, music videos, and live concerts with thousands of screaming fans. And Regina is the star of it all.
But fame is getting the better of Regina, and she has a decision to make. Does she want to replace the Beatles forever?
Greg Taylor's The Girl Who Became a Beatle is a rocking young adult novel about the good and the bad of Hollywood, fame, and rock 'n roll.
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Sixteen-year-old "Beatles nerd" Regina Bloomsbury is devastated that her retro pop band, the Caverns, is falling apart, so she makes a "tossed-off wish" for them to be as famous as the Beatles. Her wish is granted by a fairy godmother, and she awakens to find that the Caverns have taken the place of the Beatles, albeit in the present day. Regina persuades her resentful love interest/bandmate, Julian (who, in her new life, she has dated and dumped), that she has amnesia, to give herself time to make sense of her new superstar circumstances. In her fast-paced alternate life she is dating a teenage movie star, crashing in fancy hotels, and performing at the Grammys. Regina has only six days to decide if she wants to remain a pop princess or return to her smalltown life. As in his debut novel, Killer Pizza, Taylor has hold of an undeniably clever concept, though this high-energy fairy tale is let down by foreseeable plot twists and lightly drawn characters. Regina's mixed emotions and path toward gaining confidence are similarly unsurprising, resulting in an entertaining but not entirely memorable magical mystery tour. Ages 11 up.
