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Trina: "Hey," I say, though I don't really know them. The boyed-up basketball girl barely moves. The others, her girls, ste... read full description
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Mar 17, 2009
Teen
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This is a great addition to the genre of realistic fiction for African-American girls, although the themes are relevant to readers of any race. I have a few criticisms, which I'll get out of the way: One of the three characters, the vain, bouncy girl who is the target of another girl's violence, was less believable than the others. I actually would have preferred to just hear from the other two characters: the troubled basketball-playing girl who is looking for an outlet for her anger (who I fou
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Mar 17, 2009
Lesley
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This is a great addition to the genre of realistic fiction for African-American girls, although the themes are relevant to readers of any race. I have a few criticisms, which I'll get out of the way: One of the three characters, the vain, bouncy girl who is the target of another girl's violence, was less believable than the others. I actually would have preferred to just hear from the other two characters: the troubled basketball-playing girl who is looking for an outlet for her anger (who I fou
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Feb 20, 2009
Alisa
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Early one morning in zero period before regular classes begin, Leticia overhears Dominique, a big basketball-playing “boy girl” say she’s going to “get” Trina that day at 2:45.
On the surface the story is about Leticia’s moral decision: should she “Get Up, Get Into It, Get Involved” like the James Brown song played on the school loudspeakers? Should she warn Trina, who has no idea that she’s going to get pounded? Or maybe she should just stay out of it?
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On the surface the story is about Leticia’s moral decision: should she “Get Up, Get Into It, Get Involved” like the James Brown song played on the school loudspeakers? Should she warn Trina, who has no idea that she’s going to get pounded? Or maybe she should just stay out of it?
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Jan 22, 2009
Jennifer
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Trina is a beautiful, bouncy girl who is proud of herself and is sure that everyone envies her looks and personality.
When she is delivering some of her artwork to a teacher for a project, she walks too close to Dominique... "cuts into" her space... and Dominique, who is a tough basketball athlete, takes exception to that. She slams her fist into her other hand, and announces to her friends that Trina is as good as " More...
Trina is a beautiful, bouncy girl who is proud of herself and is sure that everyone envies her looks and personality.
When she is delivering some of her artwork to a teacher for a project, she walks too close to Dominique... "cuts into" her space... and Dominique, who is a tough basketball athlete, takes exception to that. She slams her fist into her other hand, and announces to her friends that Trina is as good as " More...
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Jul 10, 2011
NebraskaIcebergs
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Jumped introduced me to a world that I know exists but am often able to ignore: teen violence. As much as I like to believe that everyone is nice and kind, the news reminds me that some people are selfish and cruel. Now so does Jumped. The action of Jumped occurs in one day through the stories of three different girls whose lives will become intertwined. Letica is probably your typical teenage girl who worries more about her nails than her education. She overhears Domininque's plans to beat up T
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Sep 22, 2010
Vasu
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Jan 24, 2010
Aaron
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This quick-paced and short novel presents the tale of three girls attending an urban high school as events lead up to a major fight that will change each of them.
Trina is talented in the arts and seems to find some bright moments in life. She takes great care in trying to bring beauty into the world around her through her talent and through her choices in dress.
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Jan 07, 2010
Siri
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This book reminded me a lot of Inexcusable. It covers a period of one day, and is told from three different viewpoints (all high school girls). One of the high school girls accidentally bumps another girl in the hallway while walking. This girl takes the "bump" offensively...except the girl who bumped into her didn't even realize she had. The girl who is bumped into decides that the offender needs to be "taught a lesson" (get beat up) and that she will do that after school ge
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Nov 30, 2009
Julia
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I'm not the demographic this book was written for. As an adult, I admit that the teen drama, anger, pettiness, and self-centeredness of these characters kind of drove me nuts. I wanted to say "grow up and get over it already." But I think that therein lies the point. These girls arn't grown up. They don't have a perspective about what is and is not important. Their values are screwed up because they don't know any better, but that doesn't change the fact that what they value is j
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Nov 05, 2009
Cherylann
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This is a 3.5 star book, which could go up or down depending on how the book sits with me over the next few days.
Jumped takes place during the course of one day. Williams-Garcia weaves her story through the perspectives of Dominique, Trina, and Leticia. At first, I thought Dominique was the only one with a "problem". She is an angry, angry young woman. Her anger is clearly illustrated in her first chapter. She's waiting in the faculty parking lot for her science teac More...
Jumped takes place during the course of one day. Williams-Garcia weaves her story through the perspectives of Dominique, Trina, and Leticia. At first, I thought Dominique was the only one with a "problem". She is an angry, angry young woman. Her anger is clearly illustrated in her first chapter. She's waiting in the faculty parking lot for her science teac More...
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Jul 13, 2009
Esther
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Dec 12, 2008
Claire
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I love how the author presents three viewpoints without a hint of editorializing. Dominique is a strong, angry, unapologetic presence; she's not an obvious villain, but neither does the author set her up with a tragic background or anything equally manipulative and convenient as an excuse for her actions. She's just playing by the rules as she understands them. Trina is very sympathetic, but still a little grating in her constant self-adoration even as you want to protect her naivete. Leticia ma
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Sep 07, 2011
Josiah
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As always, the writing of Rita Williams-Garcia in this book is of the highest quality in terms of pure rhythm and readability. The urban pop and stop of the storytelling really works to make for an entertaining narrative all the way through.
Told from the first-person point of view of three African-American girls—Leticia, Trina and Dominique—who are all students at an inner city school, the story unfolds incrementally as a single day goes by in the lives of the three girls. Academ More...
Told from the first-person point of view of three African-American girls—Leticia, Trina and Dominique—who are all students at an inner city school, the story unfolds incrementally as a single day goes by in the lives of the three girls. Academ More...
Feb 16, 2010
Q_Donna
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I am almost finished with this book. Can't wait to find out what happens in the end. I think that next I will read Like
Sisters on the Homefront by the same author. I finished this book this morning. What I had hoped wouldn't happen, did happen. This gives a look at how teenagers deal with emotion, especially jealousy and anger. An innocent girl was facially mutilated just because. Dominique had to find someone to take her anger and rsge out on and she chose Trina. Trina was cocky More...
Sisters on the Homefront by the same author. I finished this book this morning. What I had hoped wouldn't happen, did happen. This gives a look at how teenagers deal with emotion, especially jealousy and anger. An innocent girl was facially mutilated just because. Dominique had to find someone to take her anger and rsge out on and she chose Trina. Trina was cocky More...
Apr 03, 2009
Tasha
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Inspired by the dramatic increase of girl-on-girl violence, Williams-Garcia has given us a day in high school leading up to a violent incident. Dominique is already angry that her grades are keeping her off the basketball court, but when Trina pushes past her that is the last straw. She knows that she can’t just take the disrespect, she has to react. Trina is oblivious to the what happened with Dominique since she is rushing to hang her artwork in the gallery. Trina is self-absorbed and very
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Feb 23, 2011
Hannah
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This is the story of three girls that go to the same school: Trina, the artist who knows she ‘s all that and everyone loves her; Dominique, the baller who don’t take notin’ from nobody and needs her minutes on the court; and Leticia, the girl permanently attached to her cell phone that knows everybody’s business. When Trina walks between Dominique and her girls in the hall doing her shimmy-shake, not even looking at Dominique, Leticia is the only one to notice that Dominique is planning to jump
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Dec 21, 2010
Marissa
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Three girls, three voices, three perspectives.
Dominique is an all-ball girl who's been benched because her grades are too low; she doesn't like anyone getting in her space and everyone knows not to mess with her. Trina is a peppy artist who loves to flaunt her stuff. All it takes is one word, "hey," to send Dominique over the edge. Leticia is stuck attending zero-hour classes to make up for the subjects she failed last term. She overhears Dominuqe's plan to jump Trina at t More...
Dominique is an all-ball girl who's been benched because her grades are too low; she doesn't like anyone getting in her space and everyone knows not to mess with her. Trina is a peppy artist who loves to flaunt her stuff. All it takes is one word, "hey," to send Dominique over the edge. Leticia is stuck attending zero-hour classes to make up for the subjects she failed last term. She overhears Dominuqe's plan to jump Trina at t More...
Mar 05, 2011
Medeia
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Dominique is a rough and tough basketball player. Trina is a pretty-in-pink girl who thinks she's all that. But Trina messes up when she brushes past Dominique, breezing through her personal space when Dominique isn't in a good mood. Dominique is in trouble with her coach over her bad grades and she's trying to intimidate a teacher to pull her grade up a notch. Her solution: take her anger out on Trina after school.
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Meanwhile, Leticia is a busybody who overhears Dominique's plan to More...
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Sep 12, 2010
Jacki
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This book sounds like an after-school special: tough basketball girl wants to beat up fluffy clueless girl and only spoiled self-absorbed girl can stop it, if only she's brave enough. Outdated, right?
Wrong!
This book is really about identity and perception. We have Dominique, the girl jock who believes she has no choices in life: all the power is held by her coach, her teachers, and her environment. She refuses to see that she has any choice in her actions. Then there's Tr More...
Wrong!
This book is really about identity and perception. We have Dominique, the girl jock who believes she has no choices in life: all the power is held by her coach, her teachers, and her environment. She refuses to see that she has any choice in her actions. Then there's Tr More...
Nov 04, 2009
Bethany
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I picked this book up because it's one of the 2009 National Book Award Finalists in Young People's Literature.
Jumped is written in three different characters' first-person points-of-view in alternating chapters. Dominique is a basketball player, angry because one grade from last year is keeping her on the bench for the entire season. Trina is an artist with--let's just say, really high self-esteem. Leticia is overweight, an observer who adores gossip, feels driven to know everyt More...
Jumped is written in three different characters' first-person points-of-view in alternating chapters. Dominique is a basketball player, angry because one grade from last year is keeping her on the bench for the entire season. Trina is an artist with--let's just say, really high self-esteem. Leticia is overweight, an observer who adores gossip, feels driven to know everyt More...
Jan 08, 2010
Kate
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Leticia isn't doing so well in school but she is going to change that this semester. She is retaking geometry at zero hour (before school) and working hard to master her other classes. But her favorite subject in school is gossip!
Dominique's only reason for even coming to school is basketball. It is what she lives for, and because of that stupid D in English she isn't going to get to play for the rest of the season. 'Nique is going to change that or someone is going to pay.
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Dominique's only reason for even coming to school is basketball. It is what she lives for, and because of that stupid D in English she isn't going to get to play for the rest of the season. 'Nique is going to change that or someone is going to pay.
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Nov 27, 2011
Becca
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It's hard for me to rate a book highly when I don't really like any of the characters. I was forced to wonder what was wrong with me when I found myself caring the most about the aggressor. I mean, she's basically a sociopath. But I could clearly picture the life she had led that turned her out that way, and I felt sorry for her. However, the other two characters--the target and the bystander--are kind of insufferable. Not to say that the target deserves anything like what she gets at the e
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May 21, 2009
Kristen
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Rita Williams-Garcia Jumped
Wow. Jumped is an intense story following three very different girls in high school, mostly during the course of one day.
Trina: a flirty, good looking, thinks-she’s-a-star-born-to-shine girl.
Dominique: an athletic, angry, Don't-mess-with-me girl.
Leticia: an average, gossip, wants-the-best-seat for the "show" girl that gets by doing the minimum (in everything) every day.
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Wow. Jumped is an intense story following three very different girls in high school, mostly during the course of one day.
Trina: a flirty, good looking, thinks-she’s-a-star-born-to-shine girl.
Dominique: an athletic, angry, Don't-mess-with-me girl.
Leticia: an average, gossip, wants-the-best-seat for the "show" girl that gets by doing the minimum (in everything) every day.
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Sep 06, 2011
Sam
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May 03, 2010
Sara E.
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I enjoyed this book. This book tells the story of a girl getting "jumped" through three different point-of-views. First, there is Trina, the pretty and flighty girl who is oblivious and a bit self-obsessed but still endearing; then Dominique, the basketball player who is frustrated because she is being benched due to her GPA; and finally the observer, Leticia, who is reluctant to get involved in the situation.
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I think Williams-Garcia does an excellent job of capturing the l More...
Dec 17, 2009
Jminier
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This book is amazing!A lot of up to date events.Teenagers can relate to it so much.When you read this book,you will feel like you are stuck in a a teenage soap opra.There are three points of views in this book and they alll come through the eyes of high school girls.There names are Trica,Domonique,and Trina.Trina is the popular one,shes good at art and at showing herself off in waht she wears.Then Domonique is the schools basketball team player.She Likes to be called 'Nique.Then Trica is the mor
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Oct 22, 2009
Jeanne
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The story takes place (mostly) in one day at a large, urban high school. We have three main characters, all female:
• Leticia is the beleaguered cell phone addict, who is mostly interested in gossip and manicures.
• Trina is the bouncy Latina for whom art is everything.
• Dominique is the tough b-baller who’s been benched due to poor grades.
When bitter Dominique decides to jump Trina for some perceived slight, it is up to Leticia to warn Trina. Why? More...
• Leticia is the beleaguered cell phone addict, who is mostly interested in gossip and manicures.
• Trina is the bouncy Latina for whom art is everything.
• Dominique is the tough b-baller who’s been benched due to poor grades.
When bitter Dominique decides to jump Trina for some perceived slight, it is up to Leticia to warn Trina. Why? More...
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Jan 30, 2011
Eileen
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Latisha, Trina, and Dominique were all at school early for different reasons. Latisha is misunderstood by her teachers and parents and would much rather be gossiping with friends on her cell phone than be in school. Trina is a fashion queen and artist who is full of herself and thinks everyone else is too. Dominique is a star basketball player that has recently been benched because of grades and is ready to take out her frustrations on the world. Although the teens lead different lives and d
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Oct 02, 2011
A very interesting book, that is hard to follow, but enjoyable. It is the intertwining stories of three teenage girls, who despise each other. It is unclear as the story begins how the three girls relate to each other or have anything to do with each other, but as you progress there stories come together in a final epic climax of events. The three girls are all so different, and the way the author Rita Williams- Garcia brings theme together is pure genius. Her writing is fluent and very descript
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Dec 09, 2010
Kirsten
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I don't like reading at all but, for the first time I actually liked this book.Jumped is one of the few books that I've read throughout the years. I can actually say that I was comfortable with reading it. If you like stories that can relate to your life or what your surrounded by then Jumped is the book for you. I recommend teenagers between the ages of 14-18 to read this. There are some curse words in here but, if your matture enough then it shouldn't bother you. Jumped relates to a lot of k
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