Drums, girls, and dangerous pie by Jordan Sonnenblick

13 year old Steven has a normal life. He plays drums in the All-Star Jazz Band, has a crush on the hottest girl in the year, and gets constantly annoyed by his 5 year old brother, Jeffery.
Having Jeffery as a brother is a pain. Actually, more than a pain. Its an unrelenting nightmare. Its not because Jeffery is way cuter than Steven, although that's part of it. Jeffery has perfect white teeth, 20-20 vision, and little blond ringlets you see in cathedrals, when Steven is the complete opposite. Steven has mouse-brown cowlick-y hair, glasses that are about an inch thick, and braces that look like he tried to swallow a train wreck. Steven wonders if anyone actually likes him. The reason why Steven hates Jeff so much is because he WORSHIPS him.
However, Steven's life changes dramatically. After a major nosebleed, his family is told by the doctor that Jeffery has leukemia, a bone cancer. His mom quits her job as a teacher to take care of Jeffery. Its not going to work out well with a silent, non-speaking dad, a worried mom, a crazy teenager, an angel and bankruptcy. Steven is forced to deal with his brother's illness, his parents' attempts to keep the family in one piece, the band, overdue homework, school-counseling, girls, and of course, dangerous pie. (you have to read the book to know what it is!!) What will happen to Steven and his family?

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other books by Jordan Sonnenblick:
notes from a midnight driver

To Love, Honour and Betray

This is a book by Kathy Lette and is my new all-time favourite book. The story follows Lucy, an English mother abroad in Australia with her husband, Jasper. A happy story- until Jasper leaves her for her interior-decorator best friend Renee.

The story revolves around how Lucy copes with the man she loves leaving her, two rebelling daughters, various financial and legal issues, a snake of a best friend, shocking twists and finally, finding new love where she least expected it.

I loved this book because it had me laughing every five minutes. Lucy's sense of humour is one I've never encountered before, but her witty and inspired banter kept me amused the whole way. The storyline was also really great in that it wasn't just another boring story about some poor woman who's lost her beloved husband, re-models herself into a supermodel and then tells him where to get off when he comes crawling back before riding off into the sunset with her young, incredibly handsome new boyfriend.

There are some really good plot twists and lots of suspense- such as when she realises that her fling with heaps-younger stud Sebastian was actually a scheme Renee cooked up in order to get custody of Lucy's pretty daughter, Ruby. I LOVED the way Lucy solved this enormous, scandalous problem and the ending was most satisfactory. In conclusion, a great book :)

So you want to be a wizard

This is a magical, adventurous book. It is about a girl called Nita who has been tortured by the bullies at school. Once, when she hid in the library from those girls, she found a book that could change her life forvever. The book, at first looked just like any other normal books in the serie "So you want to be...". However, the tittle is very funny and different- So you want to be a wizard. Nita borrowed it home and soon realised that it was not a joke, it contained all the wizardry rules, skills, spells... Nita read the wizardry oath and in the next morning, she became a wizard. She could hear the plants, animals talking. Nita made friend with a boy who was also a wizard. Together, they used magic and have great adventures. They met the White Hole and use his power to revenge on the bullies in school. I think this book is very interesting, although it is too thick. However, I don't like the ideas about magic of the author, I love it ayway.

Matilda - Roald Dahl

The main chracter in this book is Matilda of couse. Matilda Wormwood thinks that she has the worst parents ever. Her father Mr. Wormwood is a car seller who makes the comsumers to buy useless cars. Moreover, Mr. Wormwood and Mrs. Wormwood encourages Matilda to not read book and watch TV more often. Later on , she understands what Library is for. When she knew what a Library is, she started to read children's book as soon as possible. When she've finished the children's book she stared to get annoyed becuase her parents watches too much TV and not study. Now Matilda became a genius. Half a year after everyone else, at age five and a half, Matilda enters the Crunchem Hall Primary School. Matilda realises her talents were more than just academic. She had magical powers - she could move objects just from using her eyes, which she used as a weapon against Miss Trunchbull, her teacher

Overall, I have found out some sences were shocking and some helerious. it is really ridiculous that a young girl beats a older adults in education

MAXIMUM RIDE

The book that I read was called “Maximum Ride” the Angel Experiment. This is the first book of the Maximum Ride series. It is the story about the bird humans who has 2% of the Bird’s DNA by the scientists and they have wings to fly. In this book, they found out that they were not cloned but they were the real babies so they try to find their parents.

In the place with no humans, where those bird-humans are living, they have an adopter leaves one day. Max, Fang, Iggy, Nudge, the Gasman, and Angel are going to the city to find out about their parents. They thought that they were the cloned people but they weren’t. So, they try to go to London but the Erasers try to interrupt them. Erasers are the kind of monsters that tries to eliminate the Bird Humans. Unfortunately, Angel got caught from the Erasers. However, the Erasers don’t kill her but they capture her to make them come. But during this accident, they are being separated with each other. Max meets a new friend and goes to her house. After she cures some hurt after the fight with the Erasers, he goes to the place that they had promised to meet. Fortunately, she meets everyone and rescue Angel but they find out that their adopter was one of the Erasers. They go to the Cambridge and find out about their parents with the chase of Ari who’s one of the Erasers. They have a big fight with the Erasers and finally win from them and they have a conversation with their adopter. He tries to persuade them to live with him and investigate the unknown ability of Maximum Ride. However, Max refuses this and kills Ari. In the end, Max finds out that Ari was his half-brother and Max’s father is the adopter. Max gets shocked and starts to find their parents to see them.

This book was quite interesting and I loved this book. This book has many chapters with only one or two pages because they are keeping moving to show up different character. I would like to recommend this book and it’s in our school’s library.

The Absolute True DIary of a Part-time Indian

This book is about Junior Spirit, during his first year in high school. Junior lives on the Spokane Indian Reservation, where he discovers that alcohol is more important to most residents than an education is. Junior decides to transfer from his reservation school to Reardan High, a white school that is more than twenty miles away. When he arrives, he finds that he is the only Indian. His best friend on reservation, Rowdy, doesn't transfer to a new schol with Junior and he vows not to speak to Junior again, as he calls Junior "traitor". Junior also knows that everyone else on the reservation think he is a traitor.

Although Junior is stimulated by Reardan's curriculum, he must fight to improve his social standing on and off the reservation. He accidentally accomplishes this when he tries out for Reardan's basketball team. He surprises himself as he actually gets in the team and becomes a starting player. Junior's biggest challenge is that he has to play against his old school, where Rowdy - his best friend, is the star player.

How is he going to deal with this?

This is a very funny book. Find and read this book, you won't be disappointed! :)

The Thief Lord

The Thief Lord by Cornelia Funke is about two children who have just lost their parents. The younger boy was about to be adapted to their aunt, but not the older boy. However, they didn’t like their aunt, so they run away to Venice. The aunt hires a detective to find the children. On the other hand, the children stay with the street kids and Scipio, who calls himself the thief lord.

The children get a request to steal a lost piece of a roundabout that can make you younger or older. While the other younger children stays in the safe place, Prosper and Scipio goes to the roundabout and Scipio gets older. At the end, the aunt adopts another child, and Prosper lives in another safe place.

This book is really interesting, and I think everyone should read it. Once you start it, you won't be able to put it back.

The Fire Thief fights back by Terry Deary

This book talks about the Greek legend. Prometheus, or Theus. He was the God that gave fire to human and he was hiding from the Avenger. Zeus gave him a task to go and find a human hero BEFORE the Avenger capture him or the Avenger would tear him apart and kill him.

Theus travelled to the future to 1785 to Eden City where in ten years time would have the Temple of Hero built there. There he met the book's author, a boy with his Ma who go arounds cities selling fake medicines. In the same time, the monsters was grouped together to try and kill Zeus.

Zeus decided to travel to the future to find Theus and ask Theus to help him fight the monsters, but Theus can't help because he's having trouble hiding from the Avenger. While they were making plans to fight monsters the Avenger and its Magnificent Seven are on the way to kill Theus and Zeus. The Magnificent Seven was the Minotaur, the Sphinx, the Python, The Ceberus, the Trymphalian Bird, Euryale the Gorgon and the Cetus. The boy the decided to go with Zeus to kill the monsters because he knew the way to kill them and Theus stayed behind.

They fought all the monsters but Theus still can't escape from Avenger.

This book is OK but it's kind of hard to follow.

Being by Kevin Brooks

This book is about a boy named Robert Smith. He was just a normal boy living a normal. He went to an endoscopy and was anethetized. Everything when wrong when he woke up in the middle of the endoscopy, naked, unable to move or talk. He heard some people talking about his inside and their was a man called Ryan. They said that his body is weird and strange and very abnormal. Then they decided to cut him open.

After they cut him open, he started to be able to move around. He grabbed Ryan's gun and made everyone moved away. He told the anethestist, Kamal, to anethestized Ryan and told the doctor to sew him up. When the doctor had sewed him up, he told Kamal to anesthetize the doctor as well and help him out of the building.

When they reached the train station, Robert left Kamal behind and went to find a girl, Eddi, who he met once. He reached her and and told her to make him a new person. New look, new ID, new name, new passport, etc. In exchange, he told her what happened to him.

They went back to the hospital so that Robert would have proof for what he told her but they found out that Kamal died. An agent called Hayes was there at the hospital and Robert took him with them back to Eddi's apartment. When they stopped at an abandoned house, Hayes tried to kill Robert when he told Eddi to go out of the car but Eddi came back just in time and killed Hayes. They knew that they have to stay with each other to get through all this.

Robert and Eddi took a flight to Tejeda, a small town in Spain and stayed there. Eddit was trying to find some informations about Ryan but nothing came up, it's like he doesn't exist.

Then they started to fall in love with each other and they thought they would spent their life their. But things started go wrong one night when they got home and felt that something had gone wrong. Ryan was there. He was able to traced them and waited for them at their apartment. There was 3 agents with him. Eddi was abled to kill 1 of them and knock 1 down but she was shot in the head by Ryan. Robert went to her and draw her blood on his face because he couldn't cry. He took her gun and killed the other agent. After he went to Ryan, cut his arm to show Ryan how fast his arm is curing. Then he hammered his fist in Ryan's head and knocked him down but Robert didn't kill him. " I wanted him to live - to live without ever knowing what I was. That was his death: to live without knowing," Robert said and went away.

I love this book, it's really exciting!

Ways to live forever

This book is like a diary, a collection of facts and questions of an eleven- years- old boy named Sam. Sam loves facts, wants to become a scientist, find an UFO, kiss a girl and be a teenager... Unfortunately, he has leukemia and cannot live longer. He has to have special schooling at home with his friend, Felix. When their teacher asked them to write things about themselves, Sam was so excited and began to write this book. Throughout the books, you can find some very moving ideas of how to live forever and the thinking of someone who cannot live forever. Sam has some very innocent, carefree questions about death and life after we died. I really love his character because he isn't sad or afraid of dying, moreover, he wants people to be happy and tell jokes in his funeral. I think this book is very nice, although the choice of language is somehow babyish and not very wide. I love it anyway and i would like to recommend it to everyone, especially whose thinking isn't very optimistic.

GOING TO WAR IN WORLD WAR ONE

Firstly, this is a great book to read even though you have studied about the "Great War" in your History lessons. The reason for this is that it tells you more about the war than your History teacher does and that it is much more fun than studying about the war in your History lessons, I guarantee you that! The reason for this is because this superb book contains informative and memorable pictures that will provide you with easy-to-comprehend information. Therefore, even if you're not a WWI fan, just come to the library and check this book out!

Once

This is an amazing book that I suggest everyone should read. The story set in 1942, during World War Two. It is about an orphan Jewish boy named Felix. Felix loves reading, as his parents are booksellers. At the beginning of the story, Felix notices that there are gangs of Nazis travelling around Poland and burning Jewish books. Desperated to save his parents' books, Felix runs away from the orphanage to go back to his family's bookstore. He begins his adventure finding his parents and finding the truth about the beliefs that he was made to believe in. During his journey, Felix accompanied with Zelda- a girl who he saved from her burnt house. Soon, Felix realizes that not only the Jewish books that the Nazis hate, they hate the Jewish people. In addition to the big shock, Felix finds out that the Nazis follow the order of Adolf Hitler- the 'saint' that he was made to admire for years.
I think this story is brilliant. Everyone deserves to have something good in their life, At least Once.

America Is Me

A story about a boy who is lost in the system and he is not worthy of looking for.

A story from E.R Frank

This story talked about a boy named America and he is homeless. The story discovers about the past of America and how he ended up being like he is now "Lost". America was put in a hospital where he has treatments with Dr. B, though, America don't usually pay much attention to Dr.B. The author uses alot of agressive cursing in the book therefore, giving a Parental Advisory rating. The story ends when he became a grown up and realize the people around him.

Animal Farm

A magnifique book by George Orwell

This book is about a underprivileged farm in which lost spirit in life. The animals did not like the way they were treated and somehow... did the unimaginable. The bombarded the Farmers house and took over the farm!

This was the start of various events where firstly, the three main pigs decided who were to be the leader for their rightful leader was shot. They faced starvation and deaths. On the brink of disaster the animals retrieved their lives and continued taking after themselves on a farm which cruelty did no longer exist.

Carltonatic!!!!!

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This book is about two mischevious children, Harold and George who are harrasted by thier Princible. They want to find a way to get out of trouble. Later in the story, Harold and George buy a hypno ring, which allows the children to hypnotise any person.

They then hypnotise Principle Krup to be one thier comic book charaters. Principle Krup then turns into captain underpants. Captain Underpants (Principle Krup) goes to save the day againist Dr Diaper who plans to destroy the moon and destroy all the major citys.

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