Notes from the midnight driver

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Label

Notes from the midnight driver

Statement of responsibility

Jordan Sonnenblick

Creator

• Sonnenblick, Jordan
• trueSonnenblick, Jordan

Subject

• trueTeenage children of separated parents
• trueTeenagers
• trueTeenagers and seniors
• trueCommunity service (Punishment)
• Community service (Punishment) -- Fiction
• trueFamily problems
• Family problems -- Fiction
• trueFriendship
• Friendship -- Fiction
• trueGuitar
• Guitar -- Fiction
• trueIntergenerational friendship
• trueMusicians
• Musicians -- Fiction
• trueNursing homes
• Nursing homes -- Fiction
• Older men -- Fiction
• trueRealistic fiction
• trueSelf-perception
• Self-perception -- Fiction
• trueSenior men
• trueSixteen-year-old boys
• trueTeenage boys
• Teenage boys -- Fiction

Genre

• Fiction
• trueRealistic fiction

Language

eng

Summary

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

Related

• trueGotcha!

Theme

• trueMusic makers

Storyline

• trueIssue-oriented
• trueCharacter-driven

Tone

• trueDarkly humorous
• trueBittersweet

Award

YALSA Best Books for Young Adults, 2008

Cataloging source

IHI

Dewey number

[Fic]

Index

no index present

Intended audience

930

Intended audience source

Lexile

LC call number

PZ7.S6984

LC item number

Not 2007

http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/lexile

850

Literary form

fiction

http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/minGradeLevel

• 8
• 12

Target audience

pre adolescent