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Authors: Jordan Sonnenblick
Curveball : The Year I Lost My Grip (9780545393119) (16 page)
Three amazing local experts in Pennsylvania helped me with the research for this book: Laurie J. Goodrich, Senior Monitoring Biologist at Hawk Mountain Sanctuary; Brian Pepe, MSPAS, PA-C.A.T., C, Physician Assistant at Children's HealthCare, Allentown; and Steven B. Miller, Jr., at Dan's Camera City, Allentown, who is without a doubt the most patient camera salesman in the universe.
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I also learned a lot from two extraordinary educators at Phillipsburg High School in New Jersey, along with their students. Thanks to teachers Andy Herbster and Lisa Weindel for showing me the ropes of high school journalism. Thanks, too, to students Kaley Beesley, Sam Lavin, Terese Yale, and Max Daigle for walking me through what yearbook and newspaper editors and photographers actually edit and photograph.
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I got a ton of information from each of these people, although any errors of fact or interpretation are purely my own.
Jordan Sonnenblick is the author of the acclaimed
Drums, Girls & Dangerous Pie
;
Notes from the Midnight Driver
;
Zen and the Art of Faking It
; and the 2011 Schneider Family Book Award Winner
After Ever After
. He lives in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, with his wife and two children.
Drums, Girls & Dangerous Pie
Notes from the Midnight Driver
Zen and the Art of Faking It
After Ever After
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Curveball: The Year I Lost My Grip / by Jordan Sonnenblick. â 1st ed.
p. cm.
Summary: After an injury ends former star pitcher Peter Friedman's athletic dreams, he concentrates on photography which leads him to a girlfriend, new fame as a high school sports photographer, and a deeper relationship with the beloved grandfather who, when he realizes he is becoming senile, gives Pete all of his professional camera gear.
[1. Photography â Fiction. 2. Grandfathers â Fiction. 3. Alzheimer's disease â Fiction. 4. High schools â Fiction. 5. Schools â Fiction. 6. Family life â Pennsylvania â Fiction. 7. Pennsylvania â Fiction.] I. Title.
PZ7.S6984Sho 2012
 [Fic]âdc22
2011003768
ISBN 978-0-545-32069-6
First edition, March 2012
Cover photography © 2012 by Michael Frost with background image by David Madison/Getty
Cover design by Elizabeth B. Parisi
e-ISBN 978-0-545-39311-9
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