Saturday, July 27, 2013

Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie & After Ever Afer

Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie by Jordan Sonnenblick

Steven lives to play the drums. It's what he does to escape the drama that comes with being thirteen. But when his little brother Jeff is diagnosed with leukemia, no amount of drumming can help. Or can it?  


After Ever After by Jordan Sonnenblick (sequel to Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie

Jeff and his best friend Tad have one big thing in common...they both have survived a bout with cancer. But Jeff is about to come up against his toughest opponent yet...the statewide standardized test. In order to pass 8th grade, Jeff has to pass the test, but the cancer treatments have left his brain unable to do math very well. Enter Tad. Tad's cancer treatments have left him unable to walk well. The deal? Tad will tutor Jeff in math and Jeff will train with Tad so that they can both walk across the stage at graduation. With a lot of humor and a lot of realism, Jordan Sonnenblick creates a middle school world that every reader, cancer survivor or not can relate to.

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