# Drums, Girls & Dangerous Pie

**Author:** Jordan Sonnenblick
**Grade range:** Grades 6–9
**Age range:** 11–15
**First published:** 2010
**Genre:** Realistic Fiction
**ISBN-13:** `9780545231169`
**ISBN-10:** `0545231167`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/drums-girls-and-dangerous-pie
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

Thirteen-year-old drummer Steven's life is upended when his little brother is diagnosed with leukemia, forcing him to grow up fast. (Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book Award winner.)

## Themes

- family
- illness
- music

## Where this book is assigned

### Maud Hart Lovelace Book Award

- **recommended** · 6th grade · Minnesota — [source: Maud Hart Lovelace Book Award winners (Minnesota Youth Reading Awards / MYRA), via Goodreads award record — 2008](https://www.goodreads.com/award/show/39542-maud-hart-lovelace-award)
- **recommended** · 7th grade · Minnesota — [source: Maud Hart Lovelace Book Award winners (Minnesota Youth Reading Awards / MYRA), via Goodreads award record — 2008](https://www.goodreads.com/award/show/39542-maud-hart-lovelace-award)
- **recommended** · 8th grade · Minnesota — [source: Maud Hart Lovelace Book Award winners (Minnesota Youth Reading Awards / MYRA), via Goodreads award record — 2008](https://www.goodreads.com/award/show/39542-maud-hart-lovelace-award)

### Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book Award

- **recommended** · 6th grade · Illinois — [source: Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book Award — official winners list (Illinois grades 4-8, voted annually since 1988)](https://www.rebeccacaudill.org/past-awards/past-winners-list)
- **recommended** · 7th grade · Illinois — [source: Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book Award — official winners list (Illinois grades 4-8, voted annually since 1988)](https://www.rebeccacaudill.org/past-awards/past-winners-list)
- **recommended** · 8th grade · Illinois — [source: Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book Award — official winners list (Illinois grades 4-8, voted annually since 1988)](https://www.rebeccacaudill.org/past-awards/past-winners-list)

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