Whale Talk Hardcover - 2001
by Chris Crutcher
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.
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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- Title Whale Talk
- Author Chris Crutcher
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition 1st
- Pages 224
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Greenwillow Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
- Date 2001-04
- 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
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Themes
- Ethnic Orientation: Multicultural
- Library of Congress subjects Racially mixed people, Sports
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 00059292
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
Media reviews
Citations
- Booklist, 04/01/2001, Page 1462
- Horn Book Magazine, 05/01/2001, Page 320
- Hornbook Guide to Children, 07/01/2001, Page 321
- Kirkus Review - Children, 03/01/2001, Page 328
- Publishers Weekly, 03/11/2001, Page 0
- School Library Journal, 05/01/2001, Page 148
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