Jimi and Me, by Jaime Adolff (HC, 2005, $3)
I thought this would be a biography, but instead it is a novel in verse. The main character is an eighth grader forced to move from Brooklyn to a small Ohio town after his father dies. Jimi Hendrix's music helps make life bearable, but then his dad's secrets became known, and everything falls apart.
Many times people, whether musicians or fathers, are not whom we think they are. There may be an age when we can deal with learning such truths, but eighth grade is not it.
Look for this book in the poetry section.
