Jordan Sonnenblick, Author . Scholastic $16.99 (265p) ISBN 978-0-439-75779-9
Sonnenblick revisits several key themes from his debut novel, Drums, Girls & Dangerous Pie
, to even greater effect here. Narrator Alex Gregory starts off by describing his maiden drinking episode: getting drunk alone, hijacking his mother's
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Jordan Sonnenblick, Author . Scholastic $16.99 (273p) ISBN 978-0-439-75519-1
Sonnenblick's insightful debut novel charts the way a talented 13-year-old drummer's life changes when his five-year-old brother, Jeffrey, is diagnosed with leukemia. Steven, whose story unfolds through his journals for English class, was...
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Jordan Sonnenblick, Author . Scholastic $16.99 (264p) ISBN 978-0-439-83707-1
After San Lee's adoptive father is imprisoned for fraud, the eighth-grader moves with his mother from Texas to Pennsylvania. He has moved often, each time creating new identities; this time he pretends to be a Zen master. He sits zazen on a...
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Jordan Sonnenblick, Author . Scholastic Press $16.99 (260p) ISBN 978-0-439-83706-4
Jeffrey Alper, now in eighth grade, narrates this intense sequel to Drums, Girls & Dangerous Pie
. He is cancer-free now, but leukemia treatment left Jeffrey with a limp and a brain that is “a little scrambled up.” When he learns he...
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Jordan Sonnenblick. Scholastic Press, $17.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-545-32069-6
The start of Peter’s freshman year is marked by twin tragedies: a serious arm injury during a baseball game means his pitching days are over, and his beloved grandfather, a photographer who taught Peter how to shoot, is losing his memory. Peter...
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Jordan Sonnenblick. Feiwel and Friends, $17.99 (304p) ISBN 978-1-250-02564-7
On the 45th anniversary of his uncle Michael’s deadly heroin overdose, Rich Barber, an overprotected 15-year-old, travels back in time to Woodstock. At the music festival, he meets Michael for the first time—and gets to know his strict father as an...
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Jordan Sonnenblick. Scholastic Press, $17.99 (272p) ISBN 978-0-545-86324-7
After the trauma of witnessing her father have a stroke, 13-year-old Claire Goldsmith and her family struggle with their new reality. Claire must simultaneously navigate dance-class drama, getting braces (which still manages to feel like the worst...
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Jordan Sonnenblick, read by Luke Daniels. Brilliance Audio, unabridged, five CDs, 5 hrs., $29.99 ISBN 978-1-61106-146-8
When a major injury ends the pitching prospects of baseball hotshot Peter Friedman, the high school freshman has to redefine the direction of his life. And when he finds himself in possession of camera gear worth thousands of dollars—courtesy of his
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