Once again each of the characters manage to tap into the experiences and feelings that surely most readers will be able to relate to, with such simplicity that it feels as if Sachar has at some point seen into your mind. There is soo much to unpick in this story, yet Sachar makes it look easy (and seamless to read). how important it is to support someone’s dreams, even when they aren’t as ambitious as you might hope // how you can be heroic to someone even when you don’t think you are how to deal with people you don’t understand/are intimidated by (even when they’re your child) importance of good teaching (similarly the emotional and educational toll of bad teaching) importance of friendship (with either peers/children or supportive adults) - and how simple acts of kindness can affect someone In this novel Sachar proves he can match his trademark charmingly relatable characters and satisfyingly full-circle plots to a slightly younger reader (I would say 7+). She was the inspiration behind the counselor in There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom. When he first met her, she was a counselor at an elementary school. Then his books started selling well enough so that he was able to quit practicing law. For the next eight years he worked part-time as a lawyer and continued to try to write children's books. His first book was published while he was in law school. He attended Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco. Almost a year later, he was fired from the job. He was working at a sweater warehouse during the day and wrote at night. The next year, he wrote his first book, Sideways Stories from Wayside School. He went to college at the University of California at Berkeley and graduated in 1976, as an economics major. When he was nine, he moved to Tustin, California. Louis was born in East Meadow, New York, in 1954. Louis Sachar (pronounced Sacker), born March 20, 1954, is an American author of children's books.

Someday Angeline by Louis Sachar