Download or read book Keeping the Beat written by Marie Powell and published by Kids Can Press Ltd. This book was released on 2017-04-04 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fame. Love. Friends. Pick any two. It was supposed to be the best summer of her life. Instead, seventeen-year-old Lucy finds her best friend, Harper, shot dead in an LA swimming pool. How did things go so wrong? Their band, Crush, was once the top prospect to win an international talent contest. But things fell apart when Lucy discovered HarperÍs real reasons for starting a band „ which had nothing to do with music. Meanwhile, her other bandmates are throwing themselves into sex, drugs and rock and roll. Can Lucy get the rest of the girls to play to her beat? One-part wish fulfillment, one-part cautionary tale, readers will be thrilled to go behind the scenes of ñrealityî TV.