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Jakeman
By Ellis, Deborah
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-1-55041-573-5
- Publisher
- Fitzhenry
REVIEWS
School Library Journal
Reviewed on October 1, 2007
Gr 4-7 Jakeman is strong and bold, his powers sharp, like the barbed wire that surrounds him. When pushed, he pushes back. He defends the innocent and rights the world's injustices. Fortunately for his nemeses, however, Jakeman only lives between the covers of 11-year-old Jacob Tyronne DeShawn's notebook. Jacob could use a little Jakeman in his life. His mother is in prison, and he and his 16-year-old sister have been shuffled between several foster-home placements. But at present they are on a 10-hour bus ride with other children, all v...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on September 1, 2007
Jake, a budding artist and superhero comic-book creator, and his older sister Shoshona are part of a group of children taking a bus from New York City upstate to visit their mothers in prison. The trip there is long but uneventful; the brief time they spend with their mothers quietly painful—it's on the way home that the action takes off. And how: after both of the social-worker chaperones get food poisoning and the bus driver gets drunk and passes out, the kids commandeer the bus...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Guide
Reviewed on January 1, 2007
A busload of kids, including budding comic-book artist Jake and his older sister Shoshona, visit their mothers in prison. O...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
