Jasper Jones (Hardcover)
| Author: Craig Silvey |
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Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Random House Childrens Books
ISBN-10: 0375866663
ISBN-13: 9780375866661
Sku: 216794968
Publish Date: 4/5/2011
Pages:
320
Age Range:
18 to UP
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| Charlie Bucktin, a bookish 13-year-old, is startled one summer night by an urgent knock on his bedroom window. His visitor is Jasper Jones, an outcast in their small mining town, and he has come to ask for Charlie''s help. Terribly afraid but desperate to impress, Charlie follows him into the night. |
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Intense emotions, powerful friendships, and the unmasking of adult weakness and prejudice swiftly propel this coming-of-age story set in 1965 small town Australia. Awakened in the middle of the night, 13-year-old Charlie Bucktin follows the town bad boy, half-Anglo, half-Aborigine Jasper Jones, to a girl's dead body. Both thrilled and scared, Charlie helps Jasper bury her to save the boy from inevitable accusations despite Jasper's innocence. Holding onto this painful secret, Charlie's summer unfolds in many different directions, including his first crush to saving his best friend, Jeffrey Lu, from bigots. At the same time, Jasper struggles to discover the truth behind the girl's death, and events collide in surprising ways.
Intense emotions, powerful friendships, and the unmasking of adult weakness and prejudice swiftly propel this coming-of-age story set in 1965 small town Australia. Awakened in the middle of the night, 13-year-old Charlie Bucktin follows the town bad boy, half-Anglo, half-Aborigine Jasper Jones, to a girl's dead body. Both thrilled and scared, Charlie helps Jasper bury her to save the boy from inevitable accusations despite Jasper's innocence. Holding onto this painful secret, Charlie's summer unfolds in many different directions, including his first crush to saving his best friend, Jeffrey Lu, from bigots. At the same time, Jasper struggles to discover the truth behind the girl's death, and events collide in surprising ways.
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"Silvey is a master of wit and words, spinning a coming-of-age tale told through the mind of a young Holden Caulfield."
06/01/2011
"The mood and atmosphere of the 1960s small-town Australian setting is perfectly realized--suspenseful, menacing, and claustrophobic--with issues of race and class boiling just below the surface. Smart, sensible, and likable, Charlie is drawn with a deft hand, and his first-person narration astutely captures not only a sociopolitical cross-section of his community but his tumultuous family situation and internal life as well."
June, 2011
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