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  <title><![CDATA[Notes from the Midnight Driver]]></title>
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    <body><![CDATA[Notes From the Midnight Driver by Jordan Sonnenblickis a book that many teenagers can relate to. The story starts off when Alex, the main character, gets in trouble with the law. He gets drunk and starts driving his mom's car, and crashes into a lawn gnome. He has to go to court, of course, and is s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74531090">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Notes From the Midnight Driver is such a laugh-out-loud-until-your-sides-hurt type of funny. This book is about a sixteen-year-old boy named Alex who gets sentenced to volunteer at an old peoples’ home because he was drunk while driving. Once he starts volunteering at the home, he really hates it....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21876768">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Jan 05 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[For Alex, the fun ended when his brilliant plan went awry and landed him on a neighbor's lawn, crushed lawn gnome under tire, puking his guts out on an officer's shoes. Though if you asked him, it's nothing to get in a tizzy over. Just a lawn gnome. So what if he intended to drive across down and di...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42655828">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[While his mother is out on a first date, 16-year-old Alex decides to get drunk, steal her car, and drive to his father's home, hoping to catch him romancing one of Alex's former teachers. His goal? Revenge. Reality? A damaged car, a decapitated gnome, a drunk driving charge, and community service. H...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74414973">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[this book is about alex getting into a car driving drunk and crashing it.one messy little car crash and sudenly alex became some knd of convicted felon.  his parents where getting divorsed his father is hooking up with his 3rd grade teacher.and he thinks he is inlove with a girl who can kill him wit...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69547184">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[We all do stupid things. Alex did one of the stupidest. He got angry, got drunk, and decided that this was the perfect time to steal the car and yell at his dad for making him angry.<br/><br/>Luckily for Alex, he didn't get far and the only casualty was the neighbor's expensive* garden gnome. <br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52809112">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Notes from the Midnight Driver by Jordan Sonnenblick is an un-put-down-able book!  Once you start reading it, you won't want to stop.  You'll absolutely fall in love with the characters. I know I did!<br/><br/>First, there's Alex.  He's a sixteen-year-old band-geek whose parents recently got divor...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69846868">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Notes From the Midnight Driver is a funny book with some deep issues.  Luckily though, the deeper issues are addressed in a way so they don't take away from the novel's humor.  <br/><br/>Alex is a typical high school teen who is dealing with his parents' not-so-typical divorce (his dad left his mo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63948506">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[this book was about a kid who gets drunk and decides to take out his mothers car. he drives it drunk and then he crashes whole he is throwing up a guy comes up and he is a officer Alex turns and trows up on his black shoes of corse Alex did not know what he was doing because he was wasted. he was ta...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40179309">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[    16-year old Alex, who was drunk, wanted to go yell at his father for leaving his[Alex's:]Mother. He took his mother's car, and next thing he knew, he was passed out in the car, that was on the front lawn of his neighbor. When he woke, he found the head of a lawn gnome, and a police officer stand...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66732738">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[16-year-old Alex Gregory makes some bad choices and then has to deal with the repercussions to his actions. Dealing with his parents divorce, he decides to get drunk and then drive over to his dad's new home to express his anger. He doesn't quite make it to his dad's as his drunken stupor leads him ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58662547">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a really fun YA read.  A 16-yr-old tries to drink one night and plans to drive to his father's house to confront him about his parents' divorce.  After the destruction of a lawn gnome, he is sentenced to community service - in a nursing home.  He's paired with a cranky old Jewish <s>patient</s> re...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64734740">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I didn't think I was going to finish this one despite the fact that the opening chapter had me gasping for air from laughing so hard.  The main character stars off as a whiny, self-centered brat, not the type of character I usually enjoy reading.  He slowly grew on me though, and I found as I read t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45774198">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[On the night of his mother’s first date since the divorce, Alex thinks it’s a great idea to drink all of the vodka his dad left behind and then drive over to his dad’s house and surprise him and his new girlfriend (who was Alex’s third grade teacher).   Alex doesn’t get far, but he does de...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64702688">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is another Bookworms novel selection, and it looks like this will be the #1 pick of the year as we only have one more left, and it does not look promising. Sonnenblick, a middle school teacher, is a master of characterization of middle school kids, and the students pick up on that as the charac...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53477090">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Upset about his parents’ recent separation, 16-year old Alex downs a bottle of vodka and steals his mom’s car with the intent of driving to his dad’s house and telling him off.  Instead he crashes the car, decapitating his neighbor’s lawn gnome.  As punishment, Alex is sentenced to community...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26380013">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Reviewed by Sally Kruger, aka &quot;Readingjunky&quot; for TeensReadToo.com<br/><br/>Come ride along with Alex. Frustrated by his parent's divorce, Alex &quot;borrows&quot; his mother's car to pay a surprise visit to his father, who just happens to be dating Alex's former third-grade teacher. To w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22008273">more...</a>]]></body>
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