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Jordan Sonnenblick

Born

in Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, The United States

July 04, 1969

Website

http://www.jordansonnenblick.com/

Genre

Children's Books, Young Adult, Humor

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I am the author of seven books for children and young adults, including Drums, Girls & Dangerous Pie. So if youʼre looking for info about some other guy named Jordan Sonnenblick, youʼve got the wrong website.
Anyway, I know a lot of people are looking for stuff they can use in reports for school, so Iʼll just get this out of the way right up front:
My favorite color is blue.
I have a wife and two kids.
The best pet I ever had was a garter snake I caught when I was eight by a lake in Pennsylvania. I named the snake Hector. Then it gave birth to 20 baby snakes, so I changed its name to Hectoria.
My all-time favorite band is the Beatles, although I like a ton of different music.
My hobbies are playing the drums, guitar, and bass; riding my bicycle a ...more

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Jordan Sonnenblick's Blog

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Look what this awesome teen wrote!

I was visiting a high school in Allen, Texas, and a girl named Alexa Stolarski gave me an extraordinary poem she’d written to the main character of my novel, Notes from the Midnight Driver. I was blown away, so I asked if I could share it here, and she agreed. Here it is:

In the pages of the book

I see broken shards of glass

Serrated edges hiding

The words that lie

In every paragraph

But I did not loo

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Jordan Sonnenblick’s books

Average rating: 4.1 · 74,912 ratings · 9,834 reviews · 31 distinct works • Similar authors

	Drums, Girls & Dangerous Pie (Drums, Girls & Dangerous Pie #1) 4.23 avg rating — 30,837 ratings — published 2005 — 55 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	After Ever After 4.21 avg rating — 11,659 ratings — published 2010 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Notes from the Midnight Driver 4.05 avg rating — 9,647 ratings — published 2006 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Falling Over Sideways 3.92 avg rating — 6,571 ratings — published 2016 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Curveball: The Year I Lost My Grip 4.05 avg rating — 6,098 ratings — published 2012 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Zen and the Art of Faking It 3.72 avg rating — 4,756 ratings — published 2007 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Secret Sheriff of Sixth Grade 4.09 avg rating — 1,174 ratings — published 2017 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Are You Experienced? 4.02 avg rating — 864 ratings — published 2013 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Boy Who Failed Show and Tell by Jordan Sonnenblick, Marta Kissi (Illustrator) 4.07 avg rating — 738 ratings — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dodger and Me 3.46 avg rating — 424 ratings — published 2008 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Series by Jordan Sonnenblick

Drums, Girls & Dangerous Pie (2 books)
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Jordan Sonnenblick

4.23 avg rating — 42,495 ratings

Boy Who Failed Show and Tell (2 books)
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Jordan Sonnenblick,

Marta Kissi (Illustrator)

4.06 avg rating — 912 ratings

Dodger and Me (3 books)
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Jordan Sonnenblick

3.49 avg rating — 552 ratings

Quotes by Jordan Sonnenblick (?)

“Instead of agonizing about the things you can't change, why don't you try working on the things you can change”
― Jordan Sonnenblick, Drums, Girls & Dangerous Pie

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“It's amazing--my parents call everything a discussion. If I were standing across the street, firing a bazooka at my mother, while my father was launching mortar back at me, and Jeffery was charging down the driveway with a grenade in his teeth, my parents would say we should stop having this public "discussion".”
― Jordan Sonnenblick, Drums, Girls & Dangerous Pie

tags: arguments, euphemism, humor, parents

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“If you promise you will get better instead of dying, I promise I will, too.”
― Jordan Sonnenblick, Drums, Girls & Dangerous Pie

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What book should we read in June?

You may write in titles, provided the book is a 2022 Newbery contender and already published.

A Place to Hang the Moon by Kate Albus

42 votes 29.6%

Amber and Clay by Laura Amy Schlitz

26 votes 18.3%

Ground Zero by Alan Gratz

21 votes 14.8%

Starfish by Lisa Fipps (write-in)

17 votes 12.0%

The Boy Who Failed Show and Tell by Jordan Sonnenblick

9 votes 6.3%

The Girl in My Treehouse by S.A. Fanning

7 votes 4.9%

Starfish (write-in)

6 votes 4.2%

A Place to Hang the Moon (write-in)

3 votes 2.1%

Not All Heroes by Josephine Cameron (write-in)

3 votes 2.1%

A Place to hang the moon (write-in)

2 votes 1.4%

Amber and Clay (write-in)

2 votes 1.4%

Ophie's Ghosts (write-in)

2 votes 1.4%

Ground Zero (write-in)

1 vote 0.7%

The Boy Who Failed Show and Tell (write-in)

1 vote 0.7%

142 total votes

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