Drums, girls, & dangerous pie

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Label

Drums, girls, & dangerous pie

Statement of responsibility

Jordan Sonnenblick

Title variation

Drums, girls, and dangerous pie

Creator

• trueSonnenblick, Jordan
• Sonnenblick, Jordan

Subject

• trueTeenage drummers
• trueTeenage boy/girl relations
• Self-realization -- Fiction
• trueBoy drummers
• trueBrothers
• trueBrothers and sisters of sick children
• trueChildren with leukemia
• trueComing-of-age stories
• trueDuty
• trueEighth-grade boys
• trueEighth-grade girls
• trueFamily problems
• trueFamily relationships
• Fathers and sons -- Fiction
• trueFirst person narratives
• trueFive-year-old boys
• trueInfatuation in teenage boys
• trueInterpersonal relations
• trueJealousy in boys
• Leukemia -- Fiction
• trueMiddle school students
• Middle schools -- Fiction
• trueParents of children with leukemia
• truePopularity
• trueRealistic fiction
• trueResponsibility
• trueSchool bands
• Schools -- Fiction
• trueSchools
• trueThirteen-year-old boys

Genre

• trueComing-of-age stories
• trueFirst person narratives
• trueRealistic fiction
• Fiction

Language

eng

Summary

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

Theme

• trueDealing with illness

Storyline

• trueIssue-oriented
• trueCharacter-driven

Tone

• trueMelancholy
• trueAngst-filled
• trueEmotionally intense

Character

• trueSarcastic

Award

• Black-Eyed Susan Book Award (Maryland), Grades 6-9, 2008.
• Booklist Editors’ Choice: Books for Youth, 2005
• Grand Canyon Reader Award (Arizona), Tween Book Category, 2009.
• Isinglass Teen Read Award (New Hampshire), 2008-2009.
• Maud Hart Lovelace Book Award (Minnesota), Division II (Grades 6-8), 2008.
• Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Awards, Grades 6-8, 2009.
• Rebecca Caudill Young Reader's Book Award (Illinois), 2008.
• YALSA Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults, 2007
• YALSA Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults, 2013.

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

[Fic]

Index

no index present

LC call number

PZ7.S69798

LC item number

Dr 2005

Literary form

fiction

http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/minGradeLevel

• 6
• 9

Target audience

pre adolescent