EF Gk3 NftMD - Group 4

Jordan Sonnenblick

The author of Notes from the Midnight Driver

Yousra, Selin,, Gabriel, Louis

Why did Jordan decide to become a novelist?

Selin is presenting:

Yousra is presenting:

Gabriel is presenting:

Personal Life

• Drums, Girls & Dangerous Pie (2004)
  
• Notes From the Midnight Driver (2006)
  
• Zen and the Art of Faking It (2007)
• Dodger and Me (2008)
• Dodger for President (2009)
• Dodger for Sale (2010)
• After Ever After (2010)
• Curveball: The Year I Lost My Grip (2012)
• Are You Experienced? (2013)
• Falling Over Sideways (2016)
• The Secret Sheriff of Sixth Grade (2017)
  

Drums, Girls & Dangerous Pie

• his first novel
  
• wrote for his student whose brother was battling with cancer

• used to read a lot of different book genres
  
• mostly read fantasly, science fictons and comic books.
• A fantasy novel '' The Dark is Rising'' inspired him to become a novelist
  

• His grandfather was a writer and inspired him to become a writer too
  
• was so impressed noticing his grandfathers name on the spine of the book, so he also made it in his books
  

• inspired by his troubled student who was treating his substitue teacher horribly
  

• made him write an apology, but wrote a weasely excuse note instead

• his grandfather got really sick and he had to fly to florida to be with him in the hospital
• his name is also Soloman and is jewish like that character Sol in the novel
  

His inspirations

Drums, Girls & Dangerous Pie reference

• Steven and Annette are the main characters, who play drums in a band in D,G&DP who are also mentioned in the novel Notes from the Midnight Driver as couple who played in Alexs concert
  

• Alex had to take care of a dying person
  
• so they attract the readers into reading more into the story why he has to take care of a dying person

Jordan's relation to this novel

• Alex and Jordan have same favorite baseball team NY Yankees
• Both parents are divorced which made Jordan insecure and withdraw for 6 months
  

• Music and Melody play a significant role of NftMd because jordan playing jazz was what he loved when he was a teenager
• Sonnenblick always wished someone would write a teen book that nailed down how he felt when he plays the drums

• Alex express a level of Interest in Music
• a large part of his development takes place after he builds a relationship with people (Sol) who are more interested in music than he is.

• https://www.jordansonnenblick.com/
  
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordan_Sonnenblick
• https://kellyrfineman.livejournal.com/211184.html
• The Novel ''Notes from the Midnight Driver''
• https://www.encyclopedia.com/children/scholarly-magazines/sonnenblick-jordan-1969
• kincommunity.com