Sonnenblick Sequel: After Ever After
Hello and welcome to Scholastic Booktalks where we recommend brand new Scholastic books that we think you will love. This week's booktalk: After Ever After by Jordan Sonnenblick. (It's the sequel to Drums, Girls and Dangerous Pie, but you don't have to read that one first to understand this one.)
Jeff has passed the five-year mark. He’s free. Cancer-free. When he was four years old, Jeff was diagnosed with leukemia. His hair fell out, he threw up a lot, and he went through different kinds of treatment in order to be cured. Now that Jeff is cancer-free, he can finally live a normal life and hopefully not be considered just “The Boy with Cancer.”
8th grade gets off to a great start. He meets Lindsey, a beautiful new transfer student from California. And Jeff is shocked to find out that she actually likes him. Not just as a friend, but as something more! And he has a bunch of classes with his best friend Tad, who’s also a cancer survivor.
Of course, not everything is perfect. Jeff spaces out at school because of his cancer treatment and walks with a limp. His big brother Steven, who was always there for him, has dropped out of college and moved to Africa. And Jeff is still terrible at math.
Then the bad news arrives. . . Every 8th grader is being forced to take a state-wide standardized test. If Jeff doesn’t pass that test, he won’t move on to high school with his girlfriend and best friend.
But Tad and Lindsey have a plan to make sure that Jeff doesn’t fail the test. This plan is so big, so secretive and so crazy that there is no way it will work. . . will it?
Read After Ever After by Jordan Sonnenblick so you can find out if they pull off the plan of the century!
— Jen, Scholastic Booktalker
That sounds really cool. I've read the first book and I didn't even know this book existed. It is definitely on my list.
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Comment #2 | Posted by: C on February 11, 2010 at 07:43 AM
This Book sounds Awesome!
Comment #3 | Posted by: Chidi on February 11, 2010 at 08:35 AM
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Comment #4 | Posted by: lovebug252 on February 11, 2010 at 09:17 PM
The first one was about this one's brother!
Comment #5 | Posted by: Andy on February 12, 2010 at 07:28 AM
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Comment #6 | Posted by: dayday on February 12, 2010 at 09:08 AM
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from,sweetpea97 :)
Comment #7 | Posted by: sweetpea97 on February 12, 2010 at 05:50 PM
This sounds like a really interesting book. I definitely want to read it. yay!!
Comment #8 | Posted by: bakers02 on February 13, 2010 at 08:33 PM
looks good but wheres the pie?it says theirs pie!?
Comment #9 | Posted by: camoshark896 on February 19, 2010 at 03:41 PM
sounds great... Thanks!!
Comment #10 | Posted by: Jordyn on February 23, 2010 at 10:33 AM
Love the book.
Hopefully there will be another one.
Comment #11 | Posted by: H.A.D on April 26, 2010 at 12:26 PM
never read
Comment #12 | Posted by: Ethan on May 12, 2010 at 07:42 PM
i loved all thoes books they were relly good
Comment #13 | Posted by: blondchick3 on May 22, 2010 at 05:03 PM
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Comment #15 | Posted by: J0#N¢+#¢N on February 27, 2011 at 11:12 PM
This book is AWESOME! i've read it about 5 times & I atill love it!!!
Comment #16 | Posted by: Brian on December 29, 2012 at 05:59 PM
Ok, right now, I just finished the first book, and now I'm totally HYPER to read the next one!!!
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Comment #18 | Posted by: Brian on December 29, 2012 at 06:04 PM