Some of the techniques listed in Notes from the Midnight Driver may require a sound knowledge of Hypnosis, users are advised to either leave those sections or must have a basic understanding of the subject before practicing them.
DMCA and Copyright : The book is not hosted on our servers, to remove the file please contact the source url. If you see a Google Drive link instead of source url, means that the file witch you will get after approval is just a summary of original book or the file has been already removed. Loved each and every part of this book. I will definitely recommend this book to young adult, realistic fiction lovers. Your Rating:. Solomon Lewis, or Sol, a cranky elderly man with emphysema.
Meanwhile, Alex deals with his awkwardness at school and struggles to understand his budding feelings for his best friend, Laurie , a beautiful, athletic girl who hides her figure beneath goth clothing. The novel moves towards conflict as Alex tries to do something nice for Sol by throwing a benefit concert. Alex works with talented teenage musicians Steve and Annette and begins changing his perspective on other people.
When Alex gifts Sol his own Telecaster guitar, Sol returns the favor by gifting Alex his beautiful hand-embellished guitar from his career as a traveling musician. At the concert, the judge Alex has been reporting to finally attends, sitting in the front row. In the weeks after the concert, Sol is hospitalized, and Judy visits every day.
After being assigned to perform community service at a nursing home, sixteen-year-old Alex befriends a cantankerous old man who has some lessons to impart about jazz guitar playing, love, and forgiveness. From hot new talent Jordan Sonnenblick, a 'Tuesdays with Morrie' for teens.
His parents are separated, his father is dating his former third-grade teacher, and being 16 isn't easy, especially when it comes to girls. Instead of revenge though, Alex ends up in trouble with the law and is ordered to do community service at a senior center Sierra yes, but there are a few parts that might need to be read with super vision. Hands down, one of the best read-alouds I have ever done with my students.
This book starts out with a bang! Within the first page or two I was quaking a little, wondering if I had just let them choose something completely inappropriate that should have been my first clue that this book was going to be great! But things settled down.. Jordan Sonnenblick is brilliant at building charact The cover of this book is deceptive. I expected it to be silly it is at times but I was frankly surprised at the levels of joy and sadness it stirs together.
Called a 'Tuesdays with Morrie' for teens in the description, I feel like that doesn't do it justice. I am 13 years past my teens and this hit me like a ton of bricks.
I was told in advance by my girlfriend that this book made her laugh and cry, I thought,'yeah I'm sure I'll chuckle, I may get a bit choked up. This book was the first read aloud our ELA class read. The book didn't sound that good from when we picked it up at the start but as we started reading it I found it to be one of the best books that I've read.
As we went along in this book it was quite funny at different points and put a smile to my face. The book was about a boy named Alex and he made some life-changing mistakes. He went through a relationship with a man named Saul who was keeping some secrets from him. What will happen when Al This book was really good. Our ELA class read this as a read aloud. It was funny and serious at the same time. It was about this boy who was upset about his parents divorce, got drunk, took his mothers car and crashed.
For his punishment he had to volunteer hours at this nursing home. The person he is assigned to is very crochedy and mean. He ends up having a really good relationship with him and he learns a lot from the person he is taking of. I really liked it and I strongly recommend it. This book had many suprises from him getting drunk and running over a gnome, to his dad cheating on his mom with his teacher.
But overall it was a great book. The main character has to do community service with an grumpy old man. But then realizes it's not as bad as he thought. But near the end there is a big suprise to the readers, that you can see coming. Notes From the Midnight Driver is such a laugh-out-loud-until-your-sides-hurt type of funny. Once he starts volunteering at the home, he really hates it.
The man he must visit with, Mr. Solomon Lewis, is an irritable, stubborn Yiddish man who constantly insults Alex in the foreign language. Alex and Sol Mr. Lewis start to build a bridge through Jazz m What a great story and lesson that we can all benefit from. Unless I missed some details, I didn't think Alex was as bad of a kid as the other characters let on towards the end of the book, however the change in his attitude towards his community service was very evident in the letters he write to the judge.
Sonnenblick does a great job adding subtle details and pieces of foreshadowing that made this book so fun to read. The addition of character from his other novel is brilliant and creates a l This book is my favorite read aloud book so far. Even though it is sad I still liked it. My favorite character honestly is Sol. He is such a great character. When I first heard of it, I was like this book isn't going to be that good, but when we first started it, I was mesmerized.
I am so glad that we got to read this book. When Alex gets drunk and goes out for a drive his life will be changed forever. When Alex drunk drives and knocks over a garden gnome he gets sent to court for a community service project. However when Alex meets his new 'buddy' Saul, Alex isn't very happy. Over his time at the home he gets to know him better and figures out why he is so stubborn.
When Alex finds out that Saul's wife was killed because of a Drunk driving he figured out why he was so stubborn. Alex also finds out that he has a dau I actually really enjoyed this book! I was surprised at the development of the characters. The main character Alex makes a stupid decision to drink alcohol and get drunk, then he takes his mom's car and crashes into the neighbor's lawn gnome.
Alex is sentenced to send his time working with a difficult man at the nursing home named Saul. Saul doesn't seem like the friendliest of people to care for. Meanwhile Alex is battling with the at home struggles of his mom dating again, his best friend, Lor Cute story about adolescents having a great friendship then all of a sudden adolescence truly catapults these young ones into the awkward stage.
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