#tbt features Curveball: the Year I Lost My Grip by Jordan Sonnenblick. Rising freshman, Peter Friedman is an ace pitcher. Knowing that he has a place on the high school baseball team eased the anxiety of starting high school for Peter. However, his life is upended when he shreds his elbow while pitching in his Little League championships over the summer. His doctor told him that he can never pitch again. His world is rocked once more when he realizes that his beloved grandfather is losing his memory. His grandfather was a famous photographer and he gifts Peter his equipment. Curveball is the often laugh-out-loud first-person story of Peter's freshman year of high school as he readjusts his game plan, tries to fix his grandfather, finds the girl of his dreams and loses a best friend.
Curveball: the Year I Lost My Grip was published in 2012. TMS hosted a visit Mr. Sonnenblick way back in June of 2010. He spent the day giving two assemblies, had lunch with the LA teachers and gave a writing workshop to the eighth graders in the library, where he read from a draft of Curveball. It was quite exciting to listen to a real author read from a work in progress.
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