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Title	:	Whale Talk
Author	:	Chris Crutcher
Book Format	:	Mass Market Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 224 pages
Published	:	December 10th 2002 by Laurel Leaf (first published April 10th 2001)
Categories	:	Young Adult. Sports. Fiction. Realistic Fiction. Teen. Contemporary

Whale Talk

Chris Crutcher

Mass Market Paperback | Pages: 224 pages

Rating: 3.96 | 10637 Users | 1143 Reviews

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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), the Cutter All Night Mermen struggle to find their places in a school that has no place for them. T.J. is convinced that a varsity letter jacket exclusive, revered, the symbol (as far as T.J. is concerned) of all that is screwed up at Cutter High will also be an effective 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 soon becomes the space where they gradually allow themselves to talk, to fit, to grow. Together they'll fight 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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Original Title:	Whale Talk
ISBN:	0440229383 (ISBN13: 9780440229384)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	TJ Jones
Setting:	Washington (state)(United States)
Literary Awards:	Rhode Island Teen Book Award Nominee (2002), California Young Readers Medal Nominee for Young Adult (2004), Washington State Book Award (2002), Missouri Gateway Readers Award Nominee (2004)

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This book has a terrible cover and a less than inspiring teaser on the jacket. Now did this ever get picked up by any reader? Luckily, somebody read and I found it on a list of best books. I was blown away with how much I enjoyed the main character, TJ, and his band of misfit swimmers. The story is told from the clever TJ with his biting intelligence. I'm all about underdogs, and this is the best underdog story I've read in a long time! Read it!

While this book includes great issues that no doubt need to be addressed in young adult literature, I felt it lacked something more important: a believable and relatable main character. We felt that TJ was painted as an aloof but successful and sometimes over-zealous youth but came off more like a pretentious snob. What he did for the lesser characters in the novel was generous but his motives were a little off-putting and he spoke too highly of himself frequently. The rest of the characters

Allison FreemanAPA Citation:Crutcher, C. (2002). Whale Talk. New York: Dell Laurel-Leaf.Genre: Sports, Realistic FictionFormat: PrintSelection Process: School Library Journal reviewAdams, L. (2001). Whale Talk. Horn Book Magazine, 77(3), 320-321.Review:T. J. (The Tao) Jones is an adopted, talented mixed-race athlete living in a small town in the Northwest. He attends high school at Cutter High School where most of the athletes are arrogant and more concerned with winning then athleticism,

Finished. Some language, lots of dialogue by the author that clearly belies that he's a therapist. In fact the whole story is mostly a tale of an abusive, racist man harassing his ex and her kids and the family that protects them against the backdrop of a sports story. The sports aspect of the story is fairly original. In order to help out a mentally challenged kid being bullied for wearing his dead brother's letter jacket, the protagonist, an athletic multiracial adopted boy (these details are

this is the last of the "banned books" lot. i liked it more than i thought i would, and i think i liked it more than this three-star indicates, but i am somehow unable to give it a four. because this star-rating system is just too scientific and important, right?i almost didn't read this one. i read what it was about - an all-boy swim team called the mermen who are social misfits but who bond together on their long bus trips where they share their secrets and learn to trust one another and learn

Oh boy, do I have some things to say about this book.From the very beginning, this book was hard for me to get through. If it wasn't a book club book, I probably wouldn't have bothered finishing it, simply because it was kind of boring for me. The book was almost tedious to get through, and I was often confused with what exactly was happening, because there were three stories happening at once.The absolute worst part was the very end. The book seemed to be wrapping up nicely, and should've just

Chris Crutcher writes the perfect problem novel. This is not to be confused with a problematic novel, in which proper representation of diversity is missing from a novel. A problem novel shows its readers the bad and the good of the society they live in. It is not a happy-go-lucky book, but shows what teens wonder and or worry about in terms of sex, drugs, money, peer pressure, health problems, etc.Whale Talk has plenty of problems that the main character as well as secondary characters face.