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Title: Jumped
Author: Rita Williams-Garcia
Narrator: Shari Peele, Cherise Booth, Bianca Vasquez, Mark Turetsky
Format: Unabridged
Length: 3 hrs and 41 mins
Language: English
Release date: 06-09-10
Publisher: Recorded Books
Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 10 votes
Genres: Teens, Fiction & Literature
Publisher's Summary:
In this 2009 National Book Award finalist, Rita Williams-Garcia proves that she has an uncanny ability to project unique voices (Publishers Weekly). Jumped is told in alternating points of view between three girls as they struggle to make tough choices when they become involved in a fight at their urban high school.
Critic Reviews:
So well observed that the characters seem to leap off the page. (Publishers Weekly)
"Leticia, a gossipy high-school student, knows that 'Girl fights are ugly. Girl fights are personal.' She says this after overhearing that Dominique, the tough-as-nails basketball player, is planning to beat up pink-clad fashion-plate Trina at 2:45.Bouncing between the three first-person accounts within the span of a single school day, Williams-Garcia makes the drama feel not only immediate but suffocatingly tense, as each tick of the clock speeds the three girls toward collision.Along the way, the characters disregard of such high-school stalwarts as A Separate Peace and Of Mice and Men subtly prepares the reader for the messy and gut-wrenching conclusion." (Booklist)