Notes From the Midnight Driver

Notes From the Midnight Driver
Notes From the Midnight Driver  
Author(s) Jordan Sonnenblicke
Country USA
Language English
Genre(s) Young-Adult Fiction, Comedy[1]
Publisher Scholastic
Publication date 2006
Pages 288
ISBN 9780439757799
OCLC Number 62127713
LC Classification PZ7.S6984 Not 2006

Notes From the Midnight Driver is a young adult novel by Jordan Sonnenblick. It was published by Scholastic in 2006.[2] It is Jordan Sonnenblick's second book.

Plot summary

Alex Gregory is a 16-year-old boy who, one night while his mom was on a date because his dad ran off with his third-grade teacher then decided to get drunk and he took his mom's car to pay his father a visit. The next thing he knows is that he hit a $500 lawn gnome and puked on a police officer. To pay back the $500, Alex has to do 100 hours of community service at a nursing home. He is assigned to an elderly man who has the ability to make a volunteer worker run home in tears. Alex is frustrated by Sol, but the judge will not change his assignment.

Alex's best friend Laurie is a beautiful martial arts master. After meeting her, Sol thinks Alex should have a relationship with her. He constantly teases Alex by calling Laurie his wife several times throughout the book. Sol's comments about Laurie makes Alex realize his feelings for her.

One day, Alex decides to play his guitar for Sol and they start to bond; everything is going great between them. Sol even teaches him some valuable lessons, for he was once a successful guitar player. Alex has benefit concerts with Steven and Annette (from Sonnenblick's first book Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie) to give the residents something to look forward to in their boring lives. When Alex attends his school dance, Sol is rushed to the hospital, and Alex goes to see him. Sol ends up dying in the hospital, but not before he gives Alex a vintage guitar of his. Toward the end of the book, it is learned that the judge is Sol's "big shot lawyer daughter."

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