Publisher's Synopsis
"A true tale of a young girl coming of age during the exhilarating first wave of Beatlemania ... In 1964, 16-year-old Janice struggles to find happiness after growing up in a broken home in Cleveland, Ohio. She is jolted by hearing the very first broadcast of "I Want to Hold Your Hand" on her AM radio and immediately falls in love with the Beatles and the sense of freedom and hopefulness their music offers. Together with a friend, she hatches a plan to escape their dreary lives and run away to London to meet the Fab Four. After attending the riotous first Beatles' concert in Cleveland on Sept. 15, 1964 (front row, center), the two girls make their escape aboard a TWA flight to "Beatleland." In London, they rent a flat, learn to live on their own, and venture out to the hip clubs of London's Soho neighborhood in search of the Beatles. Instead, they meet pair of delightful and polite English boys-musicians-who show them around the clubs a
