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Jumped (Audio) - Rita Williams-Garcia, Various
Jumped (Audio)
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ISBN: 9781456114688 (1456114689)
Publisher: Recorded Books
Edition language: English
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ahoffman1979
ahoffman1979 rated it
Though this is an award-winner with many accolades, the story didn't really move me. I can see this working well for the right population (teens in urban settings with lower reader fluency), though. The author does a good job of portraying each character's personality and motivations (three alternat...
Infinite Satellite
Infinite Satellite rated it
4.0
This book sounds like an after-school special: tough basketball girl wants to beat up fluffy clueless girl and only spoiled self-absorbed girl can stop it, if only she's brave enough. Outdated, right?Wrong!This book is really about identity and perception. We have Dominique, the girl jock who believ...
Kim Reads Books About Things
Kim Reads Books About Things rated it
2.0 Jumped
I am disappointed. It's a very well-written book, and it's clear that the author has done her homework, but... it's missing good characters. Though they were detailed and distinct, not a single one was likable. Maybe that was the point, whatever, it left me feeling rather bored and uninvolved with t...
afterwhat
afterwhat rated it
I picked this book up because it's one of the 2009 National Book Award Finalists in Young People's Literature. Jumped is written in three different characters' first-person points-of-view in alternating chapters. Dominique is a basketball player, angry because one grade from last year is keeping h...
popsiclesinbed
popsiclesinbed rated it
The majority of 'Jumped' is told over the course of one day in an inner-city high school. Through alternating chapters in the voices of three teenage girls - Trina, bouncy, confident, and artistic; Dominique, an angry basketball player; and Leticia, gossipy and afraid - the story of an average day b...
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