Ebook {Epub PDF} Playing It Cool by Joaquin Dorfman

PLAYING IT COOL is a very interesting novel. Most of the characters are realistic, and the plot is certainly well-thought out. The scenario itself is a little odd, but suspension of disbelief is common enough in fiction. The writing is pretty excellent, too, but it lacks 5/5(3).  · Playing it Cool by Joaquin Dorfman. Click here for the lowest price! Paperback, ,  · DORFMAN, Joaquin. Playing it cool. Random House. p. c $ S Joaquin, with his father Ariel Dorfman, wrote Burning City a few years ago. He now lives in North Carolina, where Playing It Cool is set. It's a complicated tale of deception, fathers and sons, and mistaken identity--impossible to summarize in any sane way.

Playing It Cool by Joaquin Dorfman While browsing the Teen section at my local library, because I refuse to switch to "adult books". I came across the book, Playing It Cool by Joaquin Dorfman. The only reason why I picked this book up was because of the cover. Two melting ice cubes with playing dice inside them. ‎ "I always know what I'm doing." So says year-old Sebastian Montero, who is famous around town as a problem solver of the subtlest kind. Want a date with the girl of your dreams? Bastian can make it happen. Have a friend threatening suicide? Baz can talk him off the ledge. But as p. Known to his classmates as a problem-solver, Sebastian is a con man with a conscience. The story opens with Baz trying to get his buddy a date, talking another out of suicide and helping his pseudo-girlfriend escape from an abortion clinic where her mother is picketing. Baz juggles these none-too-small problems with confidence, relying on favors#;and even blackmail#;to get the jobs done.

Read Playing it Cool by Dorfman, Joaquin, lexile reading level: (ISBN: ). Book enhanced with curriculum aligned questions and activities, world class educational video clips contextual action clips. Joaquin Dorfman was born in Amsterdam in on the coldest night of the year. His first play opened at the Edinburgh Festival when he was nineteen. Currently Joaquin is working on a new YA novel and a collection of short stories. The author lives in Durham, NC. Known to his classmates as a problem-solver, Sebastian is a con man with a conscience. The story opens with Baz trying to get his buddy a date, talking another out of suicide and helping his pseudo-girlfriend escape from an abortion clinic where her mother is picketing. Baz juggles these none-too-small problems with confidence, relying on favors#;and even blackmail#;to get the jobs.