Sonnenblick continues his winning streak with Curveball: The Year I Lost My Grip. AJ is a great best friend, the kind that can be a pain sometimes, but always cares. Well, in Curveball, Grandpa is exactly the opposite. I remember vividly loving the grumpy nursing home character Sol from Notes from a Midnight Driver. In Curveball, Peter grapples with: (a) telling AJ, his best friend and baseball teammate, that he'll no longer be able to play baseball, (b) the telltale signs that his grandfather may have Alzheimer's Disease and (c) the ins and outs of the boyfriend/girlfriend relationship of a high school freshman. In class he meets the adorable Angelika, who seems to like him.Ĭurveball is the photography version of Ron Koertge's Shakespeare Bats Cleanup, another great book, in which the protagonist writes poetry when he's sidelined with mono. So, Peter takes a photography class, in order to replace his sports passion with a hobby. Since he was a kid, he'd go on photo shoots with his grandfather, a professional photographer. Actually, he'll never play baseball again. Show More gone.at least his pitching arm, that is.
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