About this title: How far will 16-year-old Jericho go to fit in? When invited to pledge for the Warriors of Distinction, he vows to do "anything" to become a member of the gang. A Coretta Scott King Honor Book.
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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
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Atheneum
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780689842320ISBN:0689842325
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Atheneum
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780689842320ISBN:0689842325
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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
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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
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Simon Pulse
Date Published: 2004-12-28
ISBN-13:9780689842337ISBN:0689842333
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Atheneum Books
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780689842320ISBN:0689842325
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. Ex-library. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 304 p. Audience: Children/juvenile; Young adult. we ship daily read more
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Simon Pulse
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9780689842337ISBN:0689842333
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Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Simon Pulse
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780689842337ISBN:0689842333
Description: New. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 352 p. Intended for a juvenile audience. Intended for a young adult/teenage audience. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Atheneum Books
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780689842320ISBN:0689842325
Description: New. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 304 p. Intended for a juvenile audience. Intended for a young adult/teenage audience. read more
Binding: Reinforced
Publisher: Atheneum
Date Published: 2003-05-01
ISBN-13:9780689842320ISBN:0689842325
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"Sharon M. Draper's THE BATTLE OF JERICHO sucked me into the plot and made me feel parts of the story. The book made me ask myself, how far would you go for you friend? Jericho is a highschool boy, who has been asked to pledge to the schools most prestigious club, The Warriors of Distinction. When the pledging becomes vicious hazing, he begins to question how much he is willing to do for te brotherhood.
The theme of this book is, how far would you go for your friends? The pledges are asked to do many rituals that test their physical strength, mental strength, loyalty, and courage. The pledge masters set some very simple, but serious rules. These are, to listen to the pledge masters no matter what, to back up your fellow brothers, and to keep the code of silence.
The main character, Jericho, is a boy who is trying to find out what he wants in life. He plays the trumpet, is over weight, and just recently was asked to pledge to the warriors of distinction. His cousin Josh is his best friend and pledging with him. The characters in this book are very modern and relateable.
I recommend this book for any person in junior high or high school. It was very interesting and will make you think about how for you will go for your friends.
"The book , The Battle of Jericho , by Sharon M. Draper is about a boy named Jericho Prescott Who is in the band in Douglass High School. He thinks popularity is a big to impress his crush, Arielle, which is the reason he sees an opportunity for popularity in the Warriors of Distinction. When the "Warriors of Distinction" invite him to help in their annual Toy Drive, he is thrilled. But things don't go the way he thought they would go. In fact, his life would change forever. I see this book as a great inspiration to young readers, such as myself, because of it's relationship to as what we would do in real life, and how would it affect us. This book is very powerful in emotions that teens would understand and get to know the book a little it more. When you read this book , it actually feels like you are in there living whatever the character is feeling and going through. It's just an experience that myself, personally wouldn't forget easily. I recommend this book to anybody who loves to go on Journeys."
"This is a young adult selection. I read it many years ago for a reading competition, and I recently picked it up again to read with a boy I tutor. He is a realistic fiction fan, and this is on the reading list for the high school.
The themes in Draper's books are always appropriate for teens, but I found the plot, characterization, and writing style stilted. However, for reluctant readers, this is a good choice with good lessons and a bit of suspense to keep the reader moving forward."
"At the end of The Battle Of Jericho the pledge group had to jump from a building, not just from the first but the second story of the house! To prove that they have what it takes to be a warrior. The group was almost done with the pledging and then all of the sudden the pledge caption had pulled the gun that the pledge had found in the disgusting dumpster they had to climb in. He had pointed the gun at the last three members, Jericho, Dana, and Josh. Dana had said she wanted to get it finished with so she jumped. Then Josh and Jericho had got into a little fight about who would jump first. But in the long run Jericho had won the fight, so he had jumped the dreadful height of the old building. Jericho had made it down. Then josh had jumped and he thought he could fly and as he landed....everyone was flabbergasted..... The ending proved suspense and grief for the reader!! I think that the fire fighter was a opinionate. He said that when they were in the pledge they only had to jump from a chair, now it's from a 2 story building... how much it has changed! It's so hard to get into groups these days. Glade I was in it at the time that I was and not now. I found out that when they had to get dragged around by leaches like dogs, that was very interesting but very disturbing as well. Every time they had to do something and the pledge had switched it with something else it caught me off guard but very funny that they had tricked them. Like when they had to drink the supposing spit...but it was just a normal drink and they all had the think of that taste in their mouth, it just made laugh! The four words that I choose for this book are, suspenseful- because when they found out that it would be awhile to see if josh would make it, when u read the book you get nervous, and anxious that he won't make it. Meaningful- because when Dana took her shirt off it front of the pledge masters the other boys in the group all went to cover her up so she did not fell discussed in the pledge. Powerful- when you read about josh and hear what you will hear when you read it, it will be hard for you not to hold your emotions in. And finally heart breaking- when Arielle and Josh break up you would not like why! When you read it you think that they would stay together for the whole book!!"
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