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Mike Grosso

Born:
Pen Name: None

Connection to Illinois: Grosso lives in Oak Park.

Biography: Mike Grosso is a musician and a fourth-grade teacher who always keeps a guitar in his classroom. His father gave him his first lesson, and his mom taught him how to keep a steady rhythm. Mike continues to write and record music. I AM DRUMS is his first novel.


Awards:
  • '''''I Am Drums'''''
  • -- ILLINOIS READS Book Selection, Illinois Reading Council, 2017

Primary Literary Genre(s): Fiction

Primary Audience(s): Young adult readers

E-Mail: me@mikegrossoauthor.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mikegrossoauthor
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mikegrossoauthor/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/mgrossoauthor
Website: http://www.mikegrossoauthor.com


Selected Titles

I am drums /
ISBN: 0544707109 OCLC: 932050683

"A single-minded twelve-year-old drummer, challenged by her school's budget cuts and her family's financial woes, must find a way to keep her dreams of drumming alive"--

 

 

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