TROUBLE FINDS EVIE LEFKOWITZ
by Diana Harmon Asher
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Pub Date 1 Sep 2025 | Archive Date 15 Oct 2025
PJ Publishing | PJ Our Way
Description
A new novel from the author of SIDETRACKED and UPSTAGED.
What’s more humiliating than your mom dating the assistant principal at your middle school? Evie’s about to find out.
Things aren’t going well for Evie Lefkowitz. Since her father passed away, she’s successfully helped her mom fend off several unappealing suitors. But now her mom seems thrilled about an upcoming date—with the assistant principal at Evie’s middle school. Things couldn’t get much worse…
Until her mom 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.
Joey’s friends couldn’t be more different from Evie’s, and her identity as “the cantor’s daughter” at Temple Shir Shalom is something they don’t understand. So how do they end up joining forces in an after-school heist that just might get them all a lifetime of detention? And could it be that getting in a little trouble is what it takes for Evie to become the person she’s meant to be?
Advance Praise
“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
“A warm, witty, and incredibly engaging story about family, fellowship, and bringing out the best in others.”
—Terri Libenson, author of Becoming Brianna
Available Editions
| ISBN | 9798992481839 |
| PRICE | US$9.99 (USD) |
| PAGES | 250 |
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Featured Reviews
Reviewer 97771
A fun read about bravery, family, and finding out how helping each other out can make way for new possibilities. Evie’s mom has a date with the assistant principal, Mr. Mitchell, at her school and Evie is not happy. One day Mr. Mitchell tells the students he will have them meet with him in small groups to get to know each other and maybe build a fellowship. Little does Evie know that when one of her best friends, Spencer, wants to free the praying mantises in science class, that others will help, even Tommy, who’s been bullying others. What happens when the teacher and Mr. Mitchell find out who’s involved?
Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for the eARC of this book. All opinions are my own.
Stephanie A, Educator
This book is a big-hearted novel about surviving the uncertainties of middle school, sticking up for what you believe in and becoming the person you were meant to be. The characters were real and relatable, the events both emotional and propelling and the emotional landscape complex and connectable. This middle grade book is sure to appeal to middle grade readers to help them feel seen AND to see different perspectives, too.
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