Nancy Keane's Booktalks -- Quick and Simple

Sonnenblick, Jordan.
DRUMS, GIRLS & DANGEROUS PIE
New York : Scholastic, 2005
IL 5-8, RL 5.3
ISBN 0439755190

(2 booktalks)
 
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 Booktalk #1

Thirteen-year-old Steven has a totally normal life: he plays drums in the All-Star Jazz band, has a crush on the hottest girl in the school, and is constantly annoyed by his five-year-old brother, Jeffrey. But when Jeffrey is diagnosed with leukemia, Steven's world is turned upside down. He is forced to deal with his brother's illness and his parents' attempts to keep the family in one piece.  (Rebecca Caudill Young Readers’ Book Award 2008)

Booktalk #2
 

13-year-old Steven has a totally normal life. He plays drums for the all-Star Jazz Band, has a crush on the coolest girl in school, and is constantly annoyed by his 5-year-old brother, Jeffrey. When Jeffrey becomes ill with leukemia, Steven and his family must cope with Jeffrey’s cancer. It affects the entire family but it is Steven’s life at school and with the band that changes the most.  (Pennsylvania Young Reader’s Choice Awards nominee, 2008-2009)
SUBJECTS:     Leukemia -- Fiction.
                        Brothers -- Fiction.
                        Self-realization -- Fiction.
                        Middle schools -- Fiction.
                        Schools -- Fiction.

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