Radio Gaga
by Katrin Bongard
Description
An illegal radio station with a really cool program – Rocco, age 16, is fascinated. He goes from being a fan to becoming a member of the crew, gets his own show and not only finds friends, but also his true love.
Rocco sure wasn’t happy about moving from Munich to Berlin – he hates the new situation in the strange city, without friends and no girlfriend. His wealthy, success-oriented parents and his brother, a drug addict, do little to offer him help in getting settled – nor do his new classmates. But then he hears them for the first time: the voices of John, Anna, Mika, Bert and Ramona, the voices of Radio Gaga. They broadcast a crazy program, free and uncensored directly from a captured guard tower on the old death zone. Rocco wants to, no, has to meet the crew, especially Ramona with her awesome talk show. And he manages to: Soon he becomes a member of the Radio Gaga crew, gets his own show and can be near Ramona all the time – the best time of his life begins. However, the radio station’s days are numbered, a complex for government workers is to be put up on the property. Hundreds of fans come to camp out with tents and sleeping bags to protect the tower, and a kind of miniature Woodstock is born. In these last days of Radio Gaga, Rocco realizes who he really is in love with.
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»Told in a quick-witted and sure-styled manner, this novel conveys an intense feeling of being alive that will be familiar to young readers. A contemporary book full of sound and action.«
An excerpt from the Jury of the Peter-Härtling-Preis
Author Biography
Katrin Bongard was born in Berlin, loves the city and almost all of her novels are set in here. She writes comtemporary literature for young and new adults and is passionate about her character-driven, emotionally-charged stories with diverse characters in which art and love play major roles.
She is also an artist and have been working in the film industry for more than twenty years. Her journey as a novelist began with an idea for a film script.
Her debut novel, Radio Gaga (German, Beltz), was awarded the Peter Härtling Prize, the Young Readers of Vienna Jury Prize, and the Golden Leslie. She published over ten book with mayor German publishing houses (Beltz & Gelberg, Oetinger, Hanser) and indie published over twenty books. She ist the Co-Founder of Red Bug Books, the first and multi-awarded E-Book-Label for Young Adult Literature in Germany.
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- Publisher Red Bug Books
- Publication Date May 2005
- Orginal LanguageGerman
- ISBN/Identifier 9783943799194
- Publication Country or regionGermany
- FormatEbook
- Pages295
- ReadershipTeenage/Young Adult
- Publish StatusPublished
- Copyright Year2005
- SeriesRadia Gaga
- Series Part1
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