Double Dutch.Sharon Draper's real-life experience as a teacher informs her stories about troubled teens. In her latest novel, Double Dutch double dutch also double Dutch n. A game of jump rope in which players jump over two ropes swung in a crisscross formation by two turners. , the two-time Coretta Scott King Coretta Scott King (April 27, 1927 – January 30, 2006) was the wife of the assassinated civil rights activist Martin Luther King, Jr., and a noted civil rights leader, author, singer, and founder and former president of the King Center in Atlanta, Georgia. Award-winning author addresses how painfully important appearances are to young adults. The story, set in Cincinatti, Ohio, focuses on Delia and Randy, good friends who attend the same middle school and have a love for double Dutch. Both kids are keeping unbelievable secrets that could have devastating dev·as·tate tr.v. dev·as·tat·ed, dev·as·tat·ing, dev·as·tates 1. To lay waste; destroy. 2. To overwhelm; confound; stun: was devastated by the rude remark. effects on their future. Delia can't read, and Randy's father has been missing for weeks. The author uses an upcoming double-Dutch championship as the backdrop for the novel. Delia is on her school's double-Dutch team, and being a talented jumper makes her feel like she's successful at something. Randy, whose mother abandoned him long ago, helps out the team to keep his mind Off his missing father. While Double Dutch examines the lengths kids will go to protect themselves, the book also examines the roles parents must play in a child's personal and academic development. Can a parent really be too busy at home and in the workplace to notice that her child is illiterate ILLITERATE. This term is applied to one unacquainted with letters. 2. When an ignorant man, unable to read, signs a deed or agreement, or makes his mark instead of a signature, and he alleges, and can provide that it was falsely read to him, he is not bound by ? When Randy and Delia finally reveal their secrets, both teens are met with satisfying conclusions. Draper's Double Dutch winningly captures middle-school student's anxieties, replete re·plete adj. 1. Abundantly supplied; abounding: a stream replete with trout; an apartment replete with Empire furniture. 2. Filled to satiation; gorged. 3. with peer pressures, dealing with bullies, and their desire to belong. These are themes that all young readers will relate to. --Lynda Jones is a BIBR BIBR Bay Islands Beach Resort (Roatan, Honduras) BIBR Backward Indicator Bit Received associate editor. |
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