About this title: A gifted athlete who's twice qualified as a swimmer in the Junior Olympics, disenfranchised high school senior T.J. Jones (the only student of color in his school) has always shunned school athletics. It is only after his favorite teacher, Mr. Simet, begs him to help form a swim team for the school (thus helping save Mr. Simet's job), that T.J. ...
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Description: Good. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 224 p. Intended for a juvenile audience. Intended for a young adult/teenage audience. read more
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Description: Good. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 224 p. Intended for a juvenile audience. Intended for a young adult/teenage audience. read more
Description: Good. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 224 p. Intended for a juvenile audience. Intended for a young adult/teenage audience. read more
Description: Good. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 224 p. Intended for a juvenile audience. Intended for a young adult/teenage audience. read more
Description: Good. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 224 p. Intended for a juvenile audience. Intended for a young adult/teenage audience. read more
Description: Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Good. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 224 p. Intended for a juvenile audience. Intended for a young adult/teenage audience. read more
Description: Good. 0060293691 Former library item may have library binding and show stamps, stickers or other marks. Items not meeting quality expectations may be returned. Due to the large scale of our operation, we do not have access to the specific contents/condition of our items. read more
Description: Good. 0688180191 Former library item may have library binding and show stamps, stickers or other marks. Items not meeting quality expectations may be returned. Due to the large scale of our operation, we do not have access to the specific contents/condition of our items. read more
Description: Good. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 224 p. Intended for a juvenile audience. Intended for a young adult/teenage audience. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: HarperTeen
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9780061771316ISBN:0061771317
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: New York Greenwillow Books
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780688180195ISBN:0688180191
Description: First Edition: First Printing: HardCover! 8vo., 220 pages. Publisher's remainder stripe on bottom edge and this book shows light wear due to handling, otherwise is unmarked and very good in a very good unmarked dust jacket. Now in a clear dust jacket protector this is a very attractive copy of this title! ISBN: 0688180191. read more
Description: Good. Purchasing this book supports the King County Library System Foundation. Thriftbooks and KCLSF have partnered to help raise additional funds for the library system. Ex-Library book-will contain library markings. Light shelf wear and minimal interior marks. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Description: Good. 0807207098 Unabridged Ex-library book on tape with stickers and stampings. Tapes have not been tested but should play fine. Case should be expected to show some wear on corners and edges. Most items ship within 24 hours. read more
"I was assigned this book in my Young Adult Literature class last spring and I quickly saw why. It has tons of features that teenagers will love to read about. There are some tough subjects: racism, domestic abuse, and bullying to name a few, and some profanity.
It starts out feeling like a typical teen movie that portrays a rebel attacking the status-quo and quickly morphs into something more. What pulled me in the most is the camaraderie that Tao and his team of misfits develop. I picked it up and read it again one evening and found it as entertaining as the first read."
"One of the best teen novels I've ever read. T.J., an engaging articulate teenager with an uncanny sense of self, is a fish out of water: a biracial adoptee in the monocultural Pacific Northwest, a natural athlete who refuses to participate in his school's pervasive jock culture. When a disabled classmate is bullied for wearing his dead brother's letter jacket, T.J. hatches a brilliant plan: create a swim team composed of school misfits who can earn athletic letters of their own. The Mermen: one overweight, one nerd, one developmentally disabled, one with a prosthetic leg; eventually win respect and admiration across the state, and their friendship brings out unexpected depths of character and talent in them all.
Residents of small town Idaho and Washington, and former school athletes may squirm at the novel's depiction of casual racism and misogyny in those cultures, and I admit that the characters are either completely likable or satanically evil. Yet this is a wonderful story of how one courageous, determined teen can make a huge difference in the lives of people around him."
"Just finished this book awesome book. The story is heart wrenching. It took me a while - 50 pages - to get into it, but it came highly recommended. My sophomores will read this during this school year. It explores many issues like child abuse, abuse of women and violence towards others. The setting is a high school where there is always abuse.
There is a line in the book that has become a part of me. But I don't have the book right now - so I can't add it yet in the text form. The line is spoken by the protagonist. After another character in the story shares the details of his physical abuse from his step father (not sexual, but just as severe, in some ways worse), the protagonist says, "...it was a gift" that he shared his story with us. It is a striking phrase perfectly placed in the book.
It strikes a note with me because when my students share a part of their life story with me, it is a gift that they have given to me, a part of themselves. This year (after only 6 weeks) I have read stories from three different girls of sexual abuse. And countless stories of the pain of divorce from the kid's perspective."
"This book should be a must-read for young adults. TJ Jones grew up dealing with a lot of anger, but he's finally coming into his own. When he sees one of the "it" students bullying a kid with developmental problems for wearing his brother's letter jacket, TJ hatches a plan to get letter jackets for a whole crew of misfits. How? By starting a swim team composed of highly unlikely athletes at a school with no pool. The book deals with a whole slew of other issues in a very thought-provoking and captivating way. I'd put this book on par with Anderson's Speak - though the language is prevalent enough to keep it out of a middle school library."
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