VOYA featured Davis's screen treatement for IF ROCK AND ROLL WERE A MACHINE in June of 2003. You can still read it HERE: http://www.voya.com/WhatsInVoya/Davis.html
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IF ROCK AND ROLL WERE A MACHINE challenged!
San Angelo Standard-Times
Parent questions book selection...
By TODD MARTIN (Staff Writer)
An Eldorado parent says there are books in the Schleicher County Middle School library that contain language strong enough to land a student in the principal's office. On Wednesday, Lee "Smokey'' Taylor said he would make it his personal crusade to rid the school library of such books.
He's not going after classics like "TOM SAWYER'' or even "THE CATCHER IN THE RYE.'' Taylor specifically mentioned a book called, "IF ROCK AND ROLL WERE A MACHINE,'' by Terry Davis.
Parent questions book selection...
By TODD MARTIN (Staff Writer)
An Eldorado parent says there are books in the Schleicher County Middle School library that contain language strong enough to land a student in the principal's office. On Wednesday, Lee "Smokey'' Taylor said he would make it his personal crusade to rid the school library of such books.
He's not going after classics like "TOM SAWYER'' or even "THE CATCHER IN THE RYE.'' Taylor specifically mentioned a book called, "IF ROCK AND ROLL WERE A MACHINE,'' by Terry Davis.
Kirkus Review
IF ROCK AND ROLL WERE A MACHINE (reviewed on November 15, 1992) Bert Bowden's odyssey through junior year takes readers on some astonishing routes: he's a poet who craves a Harley-Davidson (see title); a wry young man who, assigned to write about the worst thing that ever happened to him, reaches back to fifth grade, when his intelligence aroused the malice of a small-minded teacher (a withering characterization; years later, Bert gets a fairy-tale opportunity to one-up the man in a racquetball game). Bert's honesty about his failings and strengths is invigorating: he's a Bingo Brown, nearly grown, full of acute observations and willing to put himself on the line in the name of good old- fashioned integrity. His parents remain in the background, but their support is apparent, while Bert's interactions with a French family of bikers reveal to him a different blend of masculinity and sensitivity--just what he needs as his chances to play football recede and his life as a writer begins to take root. Fully fleshed males of all ages walk these pages, mirroring the best specimens of the gender in real life--an unusually appealing gallery of characters for a YA novel. (Fiction. 12+)
