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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)

Whale Talk

Chris Crutcher

Mass Market Paperback | Pages: 224 pages

Rating: 3.96 | 10637 Users | 1143 Reviews

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Title	:	Whale Talk
Author	:	Chris Crutcher
Book Format	:	Mass Market Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary 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

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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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Being popular and good-hearted does not usually go hand in hand in high school, but Crutcher does a good portrayal of a heroic teenager with T.J., creating someone who is admirable in almost every way. Good-hearted, funny, and chivalrous, who wouldnt fall for T.J.? Well, maybe the jocks or bullies who are tired of T.J. standing up to them and making them look dumb with his smart mouth.Not only does T.J. stand up for the school rejects, he also defends a battered student against her boyfriend

Crutcher is so good at writing sports novels. I remember meeting him in high school before I'd really read any of his books and I thought he was the coolest person ever. I had a bit of star shock to my little brain, but I still enjoy his novels! Also he's like 74 now, just damn. TJ Jones is not convinced that Cutter high school needs a swim team. But after witnessing one of the school bullies harass his friend over a letter jacket, he's determined to pull together the least likeliest team ever

Wonderful! 4.5 stars!Maybe it's the person inside me who hates athletics, but loves inspiring athletic movies? I mean, who doesn't get weepy when watching Remember the Titans, or who isn't a shameless Varsity Blues fan! Rudy? Radio? MIGHTY DUCKS! Bad News Bears... I could go on and on, I love them so much. I love them almost as much as dance movies. Bring on the 'Not another Sports Movie' parody! I'll be there, because I've just about seen 'em all! I mean, they're so much fun and they feel so

*Susan Hart*Crutcher, C. (2001). Whale Talk. New York: Greenwillow Books.*Sports*Selected from YALSA's Best of the Best List*Cart, M. (2005). Yalsa Best Of The Best: The 100 Best Books for Young Adults. Young Adult Library Services, 4(1), 45-50.*T.J. Jones is a self-avowed smart ass. To make matters more interesting, he also has a refined sense of justice, is an excellent athlete who refuses to play organized sports (to the extreme ire of the school coaches and the football team) and is one of

I read this book several years ago when I saw an article in a local paper of a girl who didn't want to read it for her English class due to language. I had never heard of the book before and so my interest was piqued because I dislike censorship. This child was trying to get it banned based on language that I'm quite sure she heard everyday in the hallway of her high school.... Seriously.. I did enjoy the book very much and I loved the swim team aspect. I'm a swimmer and both my children have

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.

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!