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Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie
Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie is a book aimed at children and young teenagers, and was the 2004 debut〔(Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie review ), Publishers Weekly, December 12, 2005〕 novel from author Jordan Sonnenblick, originally published by DayBlue Insights〔(Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie ) on Google Books〕 and later by Scholastic. Publishers Weekly described it as "insightful".〔
Sonnenblick, an English teacher and former student of author Frank McCourt, was inspired to write the novel by the real-life story of one of his own students.〔(2 heavies and a lightweight for preschoolers (in preschool) ), Detroit Free Press, 23 November 2005〕
==Plot==
The protagonist of the book is Steven Alper, a 13-year-old boy living in Pennsylvania. But one day after a really bad nose bleed and a trip to the emergency room for his younger brother Jeffrey, the Alpers are shocked to discover that Jeffrey has leukemia.〔(Unwrapping the gift of good reading ), Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, November 26, 2005〕 Everyone in Steven's family is dumbfounded and his father is very anti-social with Steven when Jeffrey goes for his chemotherapy treatments. Steven becomes very shelled in, but no one can really tell, except for a piano-prodigy, Annette Watson. Annette clearly has a crush on Steven, but he doesn't know. No sicknesses can be near Jeffrey and when Steven is hit with the flu, he must stay with his grandparents.
When Steven first finds out about the illness, he doesn't let anyone know until his teachers crack down on him after he doesn't do his work. His guidance counseler is a big help throughout the story. He finally comes clean and becomes popular and gets attention from everyone, including the girl of his dreams, Renee Albert. At one point, Steven's mom becomes sick, so Steven and his father have to take Jeffrey to his treatment. There he meets Sam, a girl with leukemia. Steven has his practice pad with him and teaches her how to play, also lending her his drum sticks. She later dies, leaving a note with the drumsticks. After failing his math final, because he turned away his tutor (Renee) because she had a cold, and he didn't want to expose Jeffrey, Steven is given valuable advice from the school counselor, "Instead of agonizing about the things you can't change, why don't you try working on the things you ''can'' change?" Annette is a piano prodigy, and is in deep rehearsal for a program at Juilliard in Manhattan, until she falls down the stairs, breaking her arm in three places. Then, in his All-City band, the high-schoolers have to quit so they can do community services, Renee and Annette think of a way to bring the service into the band. They decide that their spring concert can be a benefit concert for the Alper's. At the concert, the band has shaved their heads in honor of Jeffrey. However, right before Steven's big solo that night, Jeffrey gets sick, and Steven takes the advice from the girl he's only seen once, and goes with Jeffrey to the hospital, and he was diagnosed with an ear infection. When at the hospital, he decides to check on Sam, and learned she has died. The only thing left are his drumsticks, which he had lent to her in Chapter 17, "A Men's Journey". At the end of the story, it is stated that Annette and Steven are in love and Jeffrey is in remission.
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