VIP: BATTLE OF THE BANDS

In the second installment of this fun middle-grade series, Mackenzie Lowell is back on tour with her favorite boy band, Perfect Storm.

This time the boys have competition from a copycat brother duo who have named themselves Thunder and Lightning. When T&L’s first big hit sounds exactly like a song PS wrote for Mackenzie, the band rivalry takes off with escalating hotel pranks and stage stealing antics. Plus a mean online vlogger seems intent on ruining Perfect Storm’s reputation by sharing all the secrets that Mac has written and drawn in her journal. But Mac is the only person who has access to her journal, and she’s the band’s #1 fan. Could there be a spy backstage who is out to destroy Perfect Storm? Jen Calonita knows all the inside scoop about boy bands. As a former entertainment editor at a teen magazine, she hit the road with ’Nsync, hung backstage with 98 Degrees, went on location for Joey Fatone and Lance Bass’s movie, and met Joey McIntyre. Jen has interviewed everyone from Reese Witherspoon to Zac Efron, and has written for popular magazine including Teen People, TV Guide, Glamour, and Marie Claire. Jen is also a popular children’s author. SECRETS OF MY HOLLYWOOD LIFE was her first YA series (also published by Little Brown) and been published in 10 territories. She has written novels about summer camp and reality tv, and most recently, a middle-grade series about fairies.