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Whale Talk
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Whale Talk Hardcover - 2001

by Crutcher, Chris

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  • Hardcover
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A high-school bus provides surprising sanctuary for seven unlikely swim teammates who are, in the words of their coach, "A perennial road team. Mermen without a pond." These invisible kids resonate because of how the author sees them, believes in them, and lets them speak.

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New York, NY, U.S.A.: Greenwillow Books, 2001. Very Good Hardcover with dustacket Signed author's bookplate on ffep. . Signed. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good.
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  • Title Whale Talk
  • Author Crutcher, Chris
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 224
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Greenwillow Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
  • Date 2001
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 040715-K19
  • ISBN 9780688180195 / 0688180191
  • Weight 0.87 lbs (0.39 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.23 x 6.27 x 0.87 in (23.44 x 15.93 x 2.21 cm)
  • Ages 14 to UP years
  • Grade levels 9 - UP
  • Reading level 1000
  • Themes
    • Ethnic Orientation: Multicultural
  • Library of Congress subjects Racially mixed people, Sports
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 00059292
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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From the rear cover

There's bad news and good news about the Cutter High School swim team. The bad news is that they don't have a pool. The good news is that only one of them can swim anyway.

A group of misfits brought together by T. J. Jones (the J is redundant) to find their places in a school that has no place for them, the Cutter All Night Mermen struggle to carve out their own turf. T. J. is convinced that a varsity letter jacket--unattainable for most, exclusive, revered, the symbol (as far as T. J. is concerned) of all that is screwed up at Cutter High--will be an effective carving tool. He's right. He's also wrong.

Still, it's always the quest that counts. And the bus on which the Mermen travel to swim meets--piloted by Icko, the permanent resident of All, Night Fitness--soon becomes the cocoon inside which they gradually allow themselves to talk, to fit, to bloom.

Chris Crutcher is in top form with a cast of characters--adults, children, and teenagers--fighting for dignity in a world where tragedy and comedy dance side by side, where a moment's inattention can bring lifelong heartache, and where true acceptance is the only prescription for what ails us.

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Citations

  • Booklist, 04/01/2001, Page 1462
  • Horn Book Magazine, 05/01/2001, Page 320
  • Hornbook Guide to Children, 01/01/2001, Page 321
  • Kirkus Review - Children, 03/01/2001, Page 328
  • Publishers Weekly, 03/12/2001, Page 91
  • School Library Journal, 05/01/2001, Page 148

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