Simet makes an unconventional offer: Be the anchor of the swim team and pick your teammates.
backtracks his promise of not joining a sport when English teacher-coach Mr. Though Cutter High School jocks and coaches see he is wasting his athletic potential and go far as calling him a traitor and other insults for not having enough school spirit. doesn't need competitive sports to create his identity. He is your model student who effortlessly glides through school with decent grades and for the most part active in the social scene. is a smart, likable kid with a great sense of humor and athletic ability. Adopted, biracial high-school senior The Tao Jones (his birth mother named him after a philosophy and prefers to be just called T.J.) is well-adjusted on the surface. Whale Talk has all of the author's trademarks. Review: All of Chris Crutcher books, at least the ones I have read so far, have a sports foundation that also incorporates important issues. Jones is a multiracial, adopted teen, who shuns organized sports and the fervent athletes at his high school until he agrees to form a swimming team and recruits some of the school's less popular students when he is asked for assistance by his English teacher. I just finished one of his well known book called Whale Talk.ĭescription: T.J. I only read a few books by the author including Deadline which was on the Abraham Lincoln list in Illinois. In fact he is one of the authors listed that have been frequently challenged according to ALA. Author Chris Crutcher is not immune to challenges.
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