Four Dog Riot by Joe Cottonwood

Four smart kids.  One busy town.  Bowie Brown plays guitar - and uses it as an assault weapon.  Mimi Bucher lives in a secret bedroom in a shopping mall.  Jaz McGuire is determined to never grow up and to never hear mention of ess ee ex.  Hoot Howard collects waterfalls - until somebody steals them.  Hoot has a mother with lime-green hair.  Bowie has a father who sings to a ghost.  Jaz has a mother who is too Chinese.  Mimi has nobody at all.A couple of neighbors nicknamed Curly and Moe just might be starting a multi-billion dollar software company in a garage - if only they can cash their first check.  It’s the beginning of another year of school in Menlo Park, California in the year 1998, a time of change, the end of a millennium.  I try to be funny.  I try to be humane.  Mixing story and original music I try to present likable people who grow as you listen.Besides myself, the voices are Susan Walker, Caroline Graham, Michael Minard, and Patrick Bradley.  The music is by Will Fourt.