When I read this book, I fell head over heels in love with it. It made me laugh and it made me cry - my favorite kind of book.
Here's the description from Goodreads.com:
Thirteen-year-old Steven has a totally normal life: he plays drums in the All-Star Jazz band, has a crush on the hottest girl in the school, and is constantly annoyed by his five-year-old brother, Jeffrey.
But when Jeffrey is diagnosed with leukemia, Steven's world is turned upside down. He is forced to deal with his brother's illness and his parents' attempts to keep the family in one piece. Salted with humor and peppered with devastating realities, Drums, Girls and Dangerous Pie is a heartwarming journey through a year in the life of a family in crisis.

If you read it, you must pick up the companion too, called After Ever After, told from Jeffrey's point of view many years after the first one took place.
A great couple of contemporary novels with a great voice and male characters, something we don't get enough of, in my opinion.
4 comments:
Thanks for the recom, I like that there's a companion book!
This is one of my favorite books. Thank you so much for spotlighting it; I admired the protagonist and thought the message was brilliant. I always suggest it to teens.
This is one of my all time favorite books. It's beautifully written with humor and emotion.
I want to echo Lisa and highly recommend it!
Yes!! :) I just read this one recently and I thought it was completely perfect. One of the most beautiful family stories I've ever read.
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