Jordan Sonnenblick

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1) Drums, girls, & dangerous pie

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When his younger brother is diagnosed with leukemia, thirteen-year-old Steven tries to deal with his complicated emotions, his school life, and his desire to support his family.

2) Falling over sideways

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Claire's life is a joke . . . but she's not laughing. While her friends seem to be leaping forward, she's dancing in the same place. The mean girls at school are living up to their mean name, and there's a boy, Ryder, who's just as bad, if not worse. And at home, nobody's really listening to her -- if anything, they seem to be more in on the joke than she is. Then into all of this (not-very-funny-to-Claire) comedy comes something intense and tragic...

3) The secret sheriff of sixth grade

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A sixth-grade boy named Maverick challenges social norms at his school to show that even quiet and nice kids can be heroes. Donning his father's sheriff's badge, Maverick becomes the secret sheriff of his sixth grade class to stand up for himself and his friends.

4) After ever after

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Although Jeff and Tad, encouraged by a new friend, Lindsey, make a deal to help one another overcome aftereffects of their cancer treatments in preparation for eighth-grade graduation, Jeff still craves advice from his older brother Stephen, who is studying drums in Africa.

5) Curveball: the year I lost my grip

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After an injury ends former star pitcher Peter Friedman's athletic dreams, he concentrates on photography which leads him to a girlfriend, new fame as a high school sports photographer, and a deeper relationship with the beloved grandfather who, when he realizes he is becoming senile, gives Pete all of his professional camera gear.

6) Dodger and me

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Miserable because his only friend moved away and he has once again caused his baseball team to lose a game, fifth-grader Willy Ryan's life suddenly becomes a lot more interesting when he finds Dodger, a furry, blue chimpanzee that only he can see, and he has to decide what he really wishes for in life.

7) Notes from the midnight driver

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After being assigned to perform community service at a nursing home, sixteen-year-old Alex befriends a cantankerous old man who has some lessons to impart about jazz guitar playing, love, and forgiveness.

8) The boy who failed show and tell

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When everything things go wrong for middle schooler Jordan, he finds ways to keep his cool through humor and banging on drums (a lot), in a hilarious, true middle grade story.

9) The boy who failed dodgeball: a memoir

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"Funny, outrageous things didn't stop for Jordan Sonnenblick after he left fourth grade. No, in many ways the events detailed to hilarious effect in THE BOY WHO FAILED SHOW AND TELL were but a prelude to sixth grade, a time when Jordan would have to deal with... A rival named Jiminy (his real name is Jimmy but, hey, he looks like a cricket. A stickler English teacher who doesn't care that all the old, worn copies of GREAT EXPECTATIONS smell like puke....