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La malattia ha preparato Jeffrey ad affrontare le sfide più difficili, ma inaspettate sorprese e nuove difficoltà lo attendono. Ora è il momento di smettere di sopravvivere, smettere di preoccuparsi e iniziare di nuovo a vivere. Jeffrey si è lasciato la leucemia alle spalle ed è alle prese con la vita da adolescente: gli amici, i genitori, le ragazze e la scuola. Ma questa volta non può contare sui consigli del fratello maggiore Steven, che è in Africa a studiare musica e a ritrovare sé stesso. Nel frattempo il migliore amico di Jeffrey, Tad, sta esogitando un segretissimo e folle piano in previsione del diploma finale. Poi c'è Lindsey, la ragazza dei suoi sogni, che pensa che Jeffrey sia carino... Età di lettura: da 11 anni.
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- Pagine: 192
- Data di uscita: 01-06-2016
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A wonderful after ever after bike ride with my awesome GR friend, Eilonwy for our second BR! I loved our first BR for Drums, Girls & Dangerous Pie , and it was great to BR the sequel together as Steve and his little bro, Jeffy won my heart. I’m probably getting too melodramatic lately as it’s the Leggi tutto
WARNING: This review is a spoiler for the first book in this duology. If you want to read Girls, Drums & Dangerous Pie without knowing the ending, stop right here and now! (view spoiler) [ Jeffrey Alpers survived childhood leukemia, and has been in remission past the five-year mark. Now he's in eighth grade, tak (hide spoiler)] Leggi tutto
SPOILER ALERT = Don't read any further if you don't want to know what happened. Great middle school book about two kids who had cancer when they were in elementary school and what it's like to fit that label in Grade 8 as they struggle with hormones, dating, and the ever looming spectre of "what if i Leggi tutto
This was a heartwrenching story about two middle schoolers who have and are facing the evil disease called Cancer. I read this book to my 7th grade classes, three times. They all seemed to really enjoy the story and empathized with the characters.
So this one was a fresh start from THE POV of the little brother Jeffrey. The one with the cancer!! And yes!! He has the touch of his brother's brilliant humor too. Its just wonderful how John kept the sequel separate from tge previous book. And the writing is again just brilliant. All the new chara Leggi tutto
4.25 stars Really enjoyed the characters and seeing what Jeff was like in his 8th grade year since we saw Steven’s 8th grade year the previous book. Oddly, enough Steven was the main reason why I didn’t enjoy this book as much as the first book. I was expecting this big blow up between Jeff and Steve Leggi tutto
This book is about an 8th grader named Jeff, who's a cancer survivor. His bestfriend, Tad is a cancer survivor too. They help each other with their concerns at school/homework and girls until that one dreadful incident. A beautiful book about friendship. This surely will tug at your heartstrings. "Ho Leggi tutto
“But most of my earliest memories are of spinal taps, throwing up for two hours straight on my birthday, watching my own hair fall out while my friends were worried about learning how to write their names in crayon. And I guess Steven has lot of those shocks, too, through being my brother. But that’ Leggi tutto
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