Planet Middle School
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فرمت کتاب
audiobook
تاریخ انتشار
2011
Lexile Score
680
Reading Level
3
نویسنده
Sisi Aisha Johnsonناشر
Recorded Books, Inc.شابک
9781461848240
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- اطلاعات
- نقد و بررسی
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نقد و بررسی
In this story of a girl in transition, basketball-loving Joylin is caught between gender norms and a changing body. Narrator Sisi Aisha Johnson's voicing is fresh and full of energy as she transforms the author's poetic lines into an aural sketch of Joylin's life, especially her family and friends. The dynamics between Joylin and her two best friends is shifting as Jake starts to see Joylin as a ÒgirlÓ on and off the basketball court. Johnson's natural rhythms stay in sync with Grimes's story, making every moment of the spare text full and round. A.M.P. © AudioFile 2012, Portland, Maine
March 1, 2012
Gr 5-8-Joylin has always been happy in blue jeans and a t-shirt playing hoops with Jake, her best guy friend. As she turns 13, all of a sudden she begins noticing boys and has to pick out training bras with her mother. Nikki Grimes uses her trademark verse poetry to tell this coming-of-age story (Wendy Lamb Books, 2011) about a young teen who begins to feel like an alien, faces the confusing world of "planet middle school," and tries to figure out exactly who she is. While many have a hard time reading novels in verse, listening to it is an entirely different experience. Poetry is at its best when read aloud, and this novel is no exception. Sisi Aisha Johnson takes Grimes's text and sculpts a very real young girl who is struggling with who she is and who she is becoming. She keeps Joylin's voice just young enough to sound convincing, and deftly handles the secondary characters, such Joylin's concerned mother, her best girlfriend, Jake, and others. Sure to resonate with middle school teens.-"Shari Fesko, Southfield Public Library, MI"
Copyright 2012 School Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.
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