Born To Rock

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Born to Rock is a 2006 novel by Gordon Korman.

[edit] Plot

This book centers on the life of 18 year old Leo Caraway, a member of the "Young Republicans" group at his school. He discovers that his biological father is a punk rocker named King Maggot. After Leo's scholarship to Harvard University is revoked, he joins Maggot's band, Purge, as a roadie, to convince Maggot to pay his tuition. Further on in the novel, however, he discovers that King Maggot (Marion X McMurphy) is not in fact, his biological father. It is instead Berny, the man Leo considered up until that point to be his cousin. Even though Maggot is nor his father he choses to be because Berny is an unfit father. Maggot pays for Leo's tuition money for Harvard.