"I squeezed my lips together and made a sad attempt to blow into the instrument. Brian looked like he wanted to plug his ears, and I couldn't blame him; the thing sounded like a dying duck. How would I ever learn to play the oboe?" When Mia Beech's sophomore class schedule doesn't turn out the way she planned, she's thrown into a wild new experience: Band. Book One of Band: A Musical Trill-ogy