by Rita Williams-Garcia
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...
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 Outdated, right?Wrong!This book is really about identity and perception.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...
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...
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...
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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