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Jordan Sonnenblick

Autor(a) de Drums, Girls, And Dangerous Pie

18+ Works 5,473 Membros 246 Reviews 3 Favorited

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Séries

Obras de Jordan Sonnenblick

Drums, Girls, And Dangerous Pie (2004) 1,997 cópias
Notes From The Midnight Driver (2006) 975 cópias
After Ever After (2010) 648 cópias
Zen And The Art Of Faking It (2007) 601 cópias
Falling Over Sideways (2016) 254 cópias
Dodger and Me (2008) 179 cópias
Are You Experienced? (2013) 86 cópias
The Boy Who Failed Dodgeball (2022) 14 cópias
Baseball in April 1 exemplar(es)

Associated Works

Who Done It? (2013) — Contribuinte — 136 cópias
I See Reality: Twelve Short Stories About Real Life (2016) — Contribuinte — 40 cópias

Etiquetado

Alzheimer's (28) baseball (41) boys (35) brothers (78) Buddhism (33) cancer (168) coming of age (40) community service (41) death (46) divorce (33) drums (48) drunk driving (64) family (156) fiction (182) friends (27) friendship (130) funny (36) Grade 8 (25) high school (29) humor (97) identity (27) illness (36) jazz (28) leukemia (75) middle school (79) music (117) nursing homes (40) photography (32) read (24) realistic fiction (256) relationships (40) romance (36) school (34) siblings (41) sports (23) teen (45) to-read (146) YA (153) young adult (123) young adult fiction (57)

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Oh boy. I'm not quite sure what to think. On one hand, the humor was great but there was more than one downside.
I almost DNF'ed at chapter two. This is so awkward to even type but by the end of the second chapter, the (male) author had already spent six pages on periods. It was way too much. I kinda feel bad for whatever female he questioned to be able to write it.
Secondly, this is a middle-grade book and it was trash-talking people with different political opinions than the main character's family. This isn't about me taking one side or the other but rather, the fact that it got into politics from such a biased standpoint. Quote the book, "The political talk was the worst, because normally my father would have been the firry liberal in the mix, but this year, my most right-wing uncle was all, 'More guns! Less government! Yay, white people." Yeah. In a middle-grade book.
Third was the language used. This had stronger language than any other middle-grade that I've seen and many times even referenced stronger language.
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libraryofemma | outras 12 resenhas | Apr 18, 2024 |
I'm not getting along with this author. At all. Very 'meh'. Peter reads like a 12yo.

DNF

You know what? I refuse to torture myself further.
And if you want to so much as meep at me to give it another chance - don't bother.

I've read a YA book with injury irrevocably affecting the protagonist's life a while back and it was 100 times better. The book was [b:The Beginning of Everything|13522285|The Beginning of Everything|Robyn Schneider|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1366395005s/13522285.jpg|19082966] (or in some other cases - [b:Severed Heads, Broken Hearts|16097364|Severed Heads, Broken Hearts|Robyn Schneider|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1374501795s/16097364.jpg|19082966]).

So here is me telling you : SKIP THIS
This ... IT ruined my whole day. I felt so cheated. It still makes me furious.

FINAL VERDICT : BURN IT
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QuirkyCat_13 | outras 18 resenhas | Jun 20, 2022 |
Solid book with big heart -- Maverick's desire to be the hero he imagines has hilarious (and painful) consequences. Love the terrifying school staff (The Bee and The Bird). Love that Maverick's difficult home life improves. Short, fast-paced, great.
 
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jennybeast | outras 2 resenhas | Apr 14, 2022 |

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Obras
18
Also by
2
Membros
5,473
Popularidade
#4,554
Avaliação
4.0
Resenhas
246
ISBNs
163
Idiomas
7
Favorito
3

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