InClaire, Sonnenblick ( Notes from the Midnight Driver, rev. Her bullies become allies, her routines change,and her jovial, silly dad has to relearn everything from feeding himself to communicatingclearly, leaving Claire to wonder: “How could a man lose everythingthat made him him?” Throughout the course of the story, she learns to recognizethat love is about being strong for and knowing when to lean on one another. She does not think her life can get any worse,but when she witnesses her novelist father having a stroke at the kitchen table,her world is turned upside-down. Plus, pubertyis doing a number on her body. She isincessantly teased by two classmates, has an alto sax chair audition coming up,and has been kept a level behind her friends at her dance studio. Middle school is hard enough for thirteen-year-old Claire Goldsmith. 11/07) crafts a convincing, lightly sardonic narrator, and herbittersweet and hopeful story will likely stay with readers for some time.
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