num_pages: 384
description: South Africa is loud. Listen. Do you hear the song and dance of it? The chorus of Khayelitsha life? Every voice is different its pitch and tone and intonation as distinct as the words we choose and how we wrap our mouths around them. But everybody has a voice and everybody singsFifteen year old Neo loves music it punctuates her life and shapes the way she views the world. A life in radio is all shes ever wanted.When Umzi Radio broadcasts live in a nearby bar Neo cant resist. She sneaks out to see them and she falls in love with music and the night but also with a girl: Tale has a voice like coffee poured into a bright steel mug and she commands the stage.It isnt normal. Isnt right. Neo knows that shes supposed to go to school and get a real job and find a nice young boy to settle down with. Its written everywhere  in childhood games and playground questions in the textbooks in her parents faces. But Tale and music are underneath her skin and try as she might she cant stop thinking about them.
language: English
title: Kaleidoscope Song
publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers