Imagine you wake up one morning and your little brother has Leukemia. And you have to worry every single day that the next day you could wake up and he may be gone. What would that feel like to you? In “Drums, Girls & Dangerous Pie,” Jordan Sonnenblick explains this long story of Steven Aplers life through Middle School, and how his life changes so big. The main character is in the 8th grade, has a little brother named Jeffrey, and has a middle school girl crush who’s name is Renee Albert, and thinks about her all the time. He loves playing the drums, and is going to be in an all city band concert at the end of the year. Steven is a very outstanding student at his middle school, But when things start to change in his life when his brother …show more content…
Steven is a very outstanding student at his middle school, but some days he has to be brave enough to tell people things that he doesn’t really like talking about, and or talk to jeffrey about things that he may want to talk to Jeffrey about but is not sure if it would be the right time to do it. This is what happened when Steven wanted Jeffrey to feel better about the whole situation. “Hey Jeffy how ya feeling?” “Im ok. We had moatmeal for breakfast, but it wasn’t as good as yours. I’m scared.” “What are you scared about?” “Mommy said that they might have to do another bone marrow tomorrow.” (pg. 111) The main Character Steven, is feeling super brave at this point, his brother Jeffrey is at the hospital when this all started. Steven came into the room and asked Jeffrey how he was feeling, and how he was doing? Jeffrey responded back with that he was fine and had some oatmeal for Breakfast. But it wasn’t as good as Steven’s oatmeal! Next, Steven Alper was at school when all of his teachers called him down to the meeting room talking to Jeff about his missing work and what was wrong because all of his teachers thought he may be upset about something that they didn’t know about yet. Steven got down to the Meeting room wear there were all of his teachers surrounding a big table. “My brother . . . has cancer.” (pg. 123) Stevens teachers were all so worried about him, that they called him down for a little meeting with all of his teachers, because they were worried about Steven because none of his work was getting turned in. He was trying to lie to them about what was happening but they all new that he was lying. He finally spoke out and said that his little brother Jeffrey had cancer. The room sounded silent and everyone was really surprised, and all thanked the for telling him and