Trouble Finds Evie Lefkowitz
Coming September 1st
Things aren’t going well for Evie Lefkowitz. Since her father passed away, she’s successfully helped her mother fend off every unappealing suitor. But now her mother seems thrilled about an upcoming date— with the assistant principal at Evie’s middle school. Things couldn’t get much worse…
Until her mother volunteers Evie as a tutor for Joey Ceraco, a boy Evie hasn’t spoken to since their kindergarten playdates—a boy who, along with his best friend Tommy Halliday, is known as trouble.
Evie’s friends—Spencer and Rachel—couldn’t be more different from Joey and Tommy, and Evie’s identity as “the cantor’s daughter” at Temple Shir Shalom has kept her very far from trouble. But a questionable science project makes them all look beyond labels and reluctantly come together in a daring after-school rescue that could get them all lifetime detention.
And maybe getting in a little trouble is what it takes for Evie to become the person she’s meant to be.
Advance Praise
“A warm, witty, and incredibly engaging story about family, fellowship, and bringing out the best in others.”
—Terri Libenson, author of Becoming Brianna
“The troubles that seem to seek out Evie come quickly and suddenly—and they’re set within the greatest trouble of all: losing someone you love. What will keep you pounding through this book is not the question of whether trouble will find you, but the question of what happens when it does. In that way, what a splendidly hopeful and moving novel this is—for all of us. ”
—Gary D. Schmidt, Newbery Honor winner and author of The Wednesday Wars
