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''After Ever After'' is a book written by Jordan Sonnenblick. It is a continuation of the Alper family storyline from ''Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie'', focusing on Jeffrey Alper's life after his cancer went into remission. Sonnenblick chose to continue the storyline after receiving an email from a social worker who told him "that the story was far from finished".〔(After Ever After ) Teen Reads〕 ==Plot summary== Jeffrey is a teen in remission. Even though the cancer should be far behind him, Jeffrey still worries that it will return. He has got normal teen stuff to deal with, too - friends, parents, girls, school. Normally, he would ask his older brother, Steven, for advice. But Steven, always the trusty, responsible one, is finally rebelling and has taken off to Africa to join a drumming circle and "find himself." Jeffrey feels abandoned. Meanwhile, his best friend, Tad, is hatching some kind of secretive, crazy plan involving eight-grade graduation.He gets a letter in the mail that says he must pass the test or else he'll get held back. And Lindsey Abraham, a way hot girl who is new to the school, thinks Jeffrey is cute . . . which ''totally'' freaks him out. There is a lot about life that cancer has prepared Jeffrey for, but there is a lot that is brand-new. Now it is time for him to learn not only how to fight for himself but to stick up for the people he loves. However, at the end, he has to prepare to let go of some of his memories and accept the meaning of death. Jeffery has brain damage and cannot remember intricate things such as math rules, and the state just passed a law that every eighth grader has to take a standardized end-of-grade test and pass in order to be able to graduate. His friend Thaddeus (Tad) needs a wheelchair to move, so Jeffery and Tad make a deal, which was letting Tad tutor Jeffery, while Tad exercises to be able to walk across the stage at graduation. The year passes, and Tad has cancer again. Tad will be unable to be at the school during graduation because he will be in the hospital. Jeffery reacts by hosting a bike-a-thon to make Tad feel cared about. The bike-a-thon starts out smoothly, but when it ended, Jeffery's mother tells him that right after he started riding, Tad went into sudden liver failure, and died soon after. The story ends with Jeffery passing the tests, at graduation, and accepting both his and Tad's diplomas. In the epilogue, he is at Tad's headstone, having a "conversation" with him. His girlfriend Lindsey walks up to him, and they walk away, together. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「After Ever After」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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