![]() ![]() He manages to call her brother by his real name: Matthew.Įveryone at school-her friends, their parents, teachers, the counselor-says she’s depressed, which makes her angry, because she insists that what she is, is mad. When he finally does speak he calls her “Piggie,” a childhood nickname. Was it better if he’d just died rather than have a stroke? Claire wonders. When Dad, who was once so funny and fun, finally arrives home-well, he’s just not her father anymore. ![]() Her mother doesn’t even answer her phone. She rides with her disabled father in the ambulance to the hospital. While home alone with her lively author father, she witnesses him fall over sideways, unable to speak. When it seems that nothing could get worse-the unspeakable happens. Jordan Sonnenbrink is always laugh-out-loud funny. ![]() Everyone is doing fine-except Claire-in “Falling Over Sideways” (Scholastic 2016) by Jordan Sonnenbrink.Ĭlaire is Claire-centric. There’s no way she can live up to her big brother Matthew’s reputation in school. She might lose her second chair alto sax position and first chair Riley does nothing but insult her. Eighth grader, Claire, did not pass into the next level of dance classes-and her classmates did. ![]()
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