num_pages: 400
description: A ripped-from-the-headlines novel of ambition music and innocence lost perfect for fans of Elizabeth Acevedo and Jason Reynolds!Be bold. Get seen. Be Heard.For seventeen-year-old Denver music is everything. Writing performing and her ultimate goal: escaping her very small very white hometown.So Denver is more than ready on the day she and her best friends Dali and Shak sing their way into the orbit of the biggest R&amp;B star in the world Sean Mercury Ellis. Merc gives them everything: parties perks wild nights -- plus hours and hours in the recording studio. Even the painful sacrifices and the lies the girls have to tell are all worth it.Until they're not.Denver begins to realize that she's trapped in Merc's world struggling to hold on to her own voice. As the dream turns into a nightmare she must make a choice: lose her big break or get broken.Inspired by true events Muted is a fearless exploration of the dark side of the music industry the business of exploitation how a girl's dreams can be used against her -- and what it takes to fight back.
language: English
title: Muted
publisher: Scholastic Press