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{{Short description|1992 young adult novel by Terry Davis}}
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| name         = If Rock & Roll Were a Machine
| title_orig   = 
| translator   = 
| image        = If Rock & Roll Were a Machine.jpg
| caption      = First edition
| author       = [[Terry Davis (author)|Terry Davis]]
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| country      = United States
| language     = English
| series       = 
| genre        = [[Young adult novel]]
| publisher    = [[Delacorte Books]] (1992)<br>[[Eastern Washington University Press]] (March 2003)
| release_date = 
| media_type   = Print ([[Hardcover|Hardback]] & [[Paperback]])
| pages        = 284 pp
| isbn         = 978-0-910055-86-4
| congress= PZ7.D3177 If 2003
| oclc= 51330424
| preceded_by  = [[Vision Quest (novel)|Vision Quest]]
| followed_by  = 
}}
'''''If Rock & Roll Were a Machine''''' is a [[young adult fiction|young adult]] novel written by [[Terry Davis (author)|Terry Davis]].  It was first published in 1992 and was re-released in a new edition in March 2003.  Despite its title, it has little to do with machines and less to do with rock and roll: it primarily focuses on the central character's coming of age through the sport of [[racquetball]].

==Plot summary==
Albert "Bert" Bowen, a high school junior, is still suffering from the lack of self-esteem he developed following criticism from his fifth-grade teacher. However, a developing interest in writing and racquetball and a new motorcycle, as well as support from understanding adults, help him discover who he really is.

The novel is set in the same high school as ''[[Vision Quest (novel)|Vision Quest]]'', but twenty years later.

==Awards==
* [[New York Public Library]] Best Books for the Teen Age, 1994
* [[American Library Association|ALA]] Best Books for Young Adults, 1993
* New York Public Library Best Books for the Teen Age, 1993

==External links==
*[http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/d/terry-davis/if-rock-and-roll-were-machine.htm ''If Rock & Roll Were a Machine'' at Fantastic Fiction]

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[[Category:1992 American novels]]
[[Category:American young adult novels]]