by Sharon Draper
Hennepin County Library audiobook on 5 CDs
277 pages (the school library I worked at then?)
This review from 11.19.2007 (my Excel "reading" sheet before I started blogging) cut / paste what I wrote:
Tells the story of Delia, Yolanda, Randy, and the Tolliver Twins. Delia can't read, Randy's dad is missing, everyone's afraid of the Tollivers. A tornado trashes their school. They win awards at the Double Dutch Nationals.
In some ways, it was a very cool story that I could sell easily to my students. In other ways, it seemed kind of hokey. I'm not sure our kids would really "get" the jump-roping competitions - I don't think many of them have been exposed to that type of sport.
Floyd, Patricia R. - she had a
great voice for this & was able to pull off the differentiation between
guy & girl characters. The way she said "tournament" bugged me,
though.
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