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San Lee A.K.A. “Zen Master”

November 24th, 2008 Tracy

Find your “ohm” in Jordan Sonnenblick’s new book Zen and the Art of Faking It. Eighth grader San Lee is the “new kid” in school for the zillionth time. Due to the exploits of his con-artist father, San has been hauled cross country and attended more schools than he can shake a stick at. This time he’s landed in Pennsylvania with his mother while his father is stuck in a Texas prison. As a new student at Harrisonville Middle School San is ready to sit back and zone out. But he answers one too many questions about Buddhism in his history class (he studied Buddhism at the last school he attended) and, suddenly, he’s teling everyone he’s a Zen master! He definitely likes the attention he gets being a Buddhism expert. Plus the cute girl in the purple glasses (who he has a crush on) thinks being a Zen master is pretty cool. His ploy, however, becomes harder and harder to sustain. He wonders when his lie will come crashing down around him in an un-Zen-like heap. Follow his escapades at Harrisonville Middle School and find out what happens to San in Zen and the Art of Faking It.

Author Jordan Sonnenblick has writen a couple of other books for teens, including Notes from the Midnight Driver and Drums, Girls, & Dangerous Pie.

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