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A 2012 Michael L. Printz Honor Book
Charlie Bucktin, a bookish thirteen year old, is startled one summer night by an urgent knock on his bedroom window. His visitor is Jasper Jones, an outcast in their small mining town, and he has come to ask for Charlie's help. Terribly afraid but desperate to impress, Charlie follows him into the night.
Jasper takes him to his secret glade, where Charlie witnesses Jasper's horrible discovery. With his secret like a brick in his belly, Charlie is pushed and pulled by a town closing in on itself in fear and suspicion. He locks horns with his tempestuous mother, falls nervously in love, and battles to keep a lid on his zealous best friend. In the simmering summer where everything changes, Charlie learns why the truth of things is so hard to know, and even harder to hold in his heart.
- Sales Rank: #919633 in Books
- Brand: Knopf Books for Young Readers
- Published on: 2011-04-05
- Released on: 2011-04-05
- Ingredients: Example Ingredients
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.46" h x 1.08" w x 6.10" l, .95 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 320 pages
From School Library Journal
Gr 10 Up-A rap on the window awakens 13-year-old Charlie Bucktin. He's startled to find Jasper Jones, the bad boy of his small Australian town, frantic and in need of his help. Charlie follows Jasper into the night and is led to the battered body of Laura Wishart, hanging from the noose of a eucalyptus tree. Jasper is desperate to cut Laura down as the rope around her neck belongs to him. Convinced of Jasper's innocence, Charlie helps submerge Laura's body in a river and the boys vow to find Laura's killer. Set in the 1960s during the Vietnam War, Craig Silvey's novel (Knopf, 2011) perfectly captures the time period. Charlie's small town reacts with fear at Laura's disappearance and the bigotry simmering just below the surface of the town erupts into violence. Matt Cowlrick gives each character a unique voice and his pacing is impeccable. Strong language and mature content make this appropriate for older teens.-Tricia Melgaard, formerly Broken Arrow Public Schools, Tulsa, OKα(c) Copyright 2011. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Review
Starred Review, Kirkus Reviews, March 15, 2011:
"The author’s keen ear for dialogue is evident in the humorous verbal sparring between Charlie and Jeffrey, typical of smart 13-year-old boys...A richly rewarding exploration of truth and lies by a masterful storyteller."
Starred Review, The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, April 2011:
"Silvey’s sure-footed, evocative prose, intelligent humor, and careful plot structuring may well ensure this Aussie import lasting status."
Starred Review, The Horn Book Magazine, May/June 2011:
"The mood and atmosphere of the 1960s small-town Australian setting is perfectly realized—suspenseful, menacing, and claustrophobic—with issues of race and class boiling just below the surface."
Starred Review, School Library Journal, June 2011:
"Silvey is a master of wit and words, spinning a coming-of-age tale told through the mind of a young Holden Caulfield."
About the Author
CRAIG SILVEY wrote his first novel, Rhubarb, at the age of 19. It became a bestseller and was chosen as the "One Book" for the Perth International Writers Festival. Craig is the singer/songwriter for the band The Nancy Sikes! and lives in Fremantle, Australia.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
Multi-Layered Story
By PDXbibliophile
Jasper Jones is an intense read on several levels. Young protagonist, Charlie, often makes references to his latest favorite book, To Kill A Mockingbird, and there many similarities in these two novels. Jasper Jones is set in 1960's small rural town Australia. Like To Kill A Mockingbird, Charlie's town is being poisoned by poverty, prejudice, gossip, alcoholism and despair. Charlie ends up in the center of the town's unraveling when he promises his classmate, Jasper, he will keep a horrible secret about something Jasper has discovered - a secret that is the inciting event for dragging all of the town's deplorable secrets out in the open. Charlie is just trying to do the right thing, but how can it be right, if it is causing so many negative consequences? The story has a gripping opening that leads the reader to believe Jasper Jones is a mystery, and it is, partly.
"And I see it. And everything changes. I'm screaming, but they are muffled screams. I can't breathe in. I feel like I'm underwater. Deaf and drowning..."
"We can't tell anybody Charlie. We have to find out who did this."
The first thing readers will think is, how are two young teens going to solve such a huge mystery? The mystery doesn't crop up again for 200 pages. Most of the story focuses on Charlie trying to survive his decision to keep the secret, and his trying to understand what is happening to all of these people he has known all of his life. But when the Charlie and Jasper finally step up to solve the mystery, it brings surprise twists and surprise ending. Like To Kill A Mockingbird, Jasper Jones is foremost a coming of age story. Also like To Kill A Mockingbird, it does not have a happily ever after ending, but it does have a realistic and satisfying ending.
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An instant classic
By D Putri
It took me a while to pick up this book as I must have been put off by the publisher hype that calls Jasper Jones 'the Australian "To Kill of a Mockingbird". But once I got started on it, I could not put it down.
The opening hooked me in instantly. How could it not? The book, set in summer 1965 in the regional mining town of Corrigan, opens with bookish teen Charles Bucktin led into the bush by indigenous boy and local troublemaker Jasper Jones, only to discover Laura Wishart, a girl from school, hanging dead from a tree.
The little world of Corrigan set the perfect stage to depict the racial prejudice imposed on Jasper Jones. A prejudice that would have seen someone like Jasper arrested and convicted without a fair trial, no matter how far from truth the charges are. That is why Charles and Jasper had to take matters in their own hand. They had to find the killer before the body is found.
Despite of the gut wrenching opening, to my delight, Jasper Jones is not a detective story. It is a classic coming age story, where Charles Bucktin has his eyes opened to the realities of his small town existence - racism, domestic abuse, small town parochialism and downright ignorance.
For instance, very much like 1930s America, racism was at its peak in 1960s Australia. In this story, racially motivated hatred and action were widely tolerated. Charles, who narrates the tale, also witnesses racially motivated hatred and violence directed towards best friend, Jeffrey Lu, the son of a Vietnamese migrant. Even though Jeffrey is a brilliant kid with the wittiest comebacks, he is reduced to a mute in the face of bullying.
The author delivers the story without the doom and gloom that would usually accompany such subject matter. In fact, it almost seems like Jasper Jones, the book, is not taking itself too seriously. There is lightheartedness and childish wit in tragedy. Charles Bucktin provided a dose wisdom that goes beyond his age yet within character as gis teenage impulses still dominate the storytelling.
Aside of Jeffrey, Charles also discovers an unexpected ally in Laura's sister Eliza. In fact, her presence in his life gradually blossoms info a romantic relationship. This plagues him secretly as he harbours the terrible secret of Laura's disappearance. Meanwhile the town descends into paranoia and erupts in frantic search efforts at the slightest stir as Laura's whereabouts remains a mystery.
The dialogues between the young characters were my favourite parts of the book. Random banter about how stripes got onto toothpastes and whether one would choose to wear a hat made of live spiders or would rather have a hand full of penises instead were absolutely authentic, funny and heartwarming. It also evoked a sense of nostalgia and even more so, as it is filled with pop culture references of days gone by like Audrey Hepburn movies.
In sum, 'Jasper Jones' is a superb literary work that deserves to be listed as an Australian classic. Highly recommended.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
Reminds me of "DeGrassi"
By Dienne
In my college days, we used to gather in the lounge in the late afternoons on weekdays eagerly awaiting the next episode of "DeGrassi Junior High" (which became "DeGrassi High" my second year). It seemed like every possible calamity and scandal struck those poor kids, so much so that it became the House sport to guess the next Big Event - who would get pregnant, who was using drugs, whose parents would split, who'd get what disease, etc. It was hardly realistic, but then, it wasn't really meant to be - it was an after-school special designed to get kids talking about important topics (and to entertain bored college students).
This book reminded me a lot of that old show, and, in fact, I had a few "DeGrassi moments" when some new explosive secret would burst open. This book has it all. Jasper Jones is basically an abandoned street waif. His mother died in an accident when he was little and his father's been a raging drunk ever since. He's been outcast by the townsfolk who blame him for every unexplained mishap and tragedy. And to top it off, what he finds in the little clearing he uses as his home away from home threatens his very existence in the small mining town of Corrigan, Australia (which could just as easily be any town in America, minus the Australian slang).
Charlie Bucktin is a nerdy kid, unblessed with athletic prowess in a town where sports are currency. His tyrannical mother dominates his existence and there's not support to be had from his mild-mannered father. His parents' already rocky marriage is about to be blown apart by one more of Corrigan's many toxic secrets.
Charlie's best friend Jeffery Lu and his family are refugees from Vietnam who are treated like the town's social project - pitied and tolerated, but only so long as they don't cause trouble. And trouble could be something as simple as his father having a job when other Corrigan men are out of work. But at least they're not dying in Vietnam like his mother's family. Undersized Jeffrey is tormented mercilessly by the athletic boys, but he hardly seems to notice as he cheerfully comes back for more, all in the hopes of getting to play cricket.
And Eliza Wishart, the quiet, aloof girl Charlie secretly has his hopes set on, has troubles of her own. Her sister is "missing" and Eliza knows more than she's letting on. Meanwhile, her father, town president and pillar of the community, has some secrets of his own.
When Laura Wishart goes "missing", these four characters and their families are drawn into a heaving swirl of drama that will ultimately both reveal and further bury the ugly secrets that have festered in the town for so long. While there is a certain happy resolution to the story, basically life in Corrigan will go on as before with the same fetid drama continuing to play out.
I agree with reviewers who say that this is not really a plot-focused book. White a lot seems to happen, and often dramatically, few events seem to move the plot along. The book opens as a mystery, but we really make little progress solving that mystery, instead getting sidetracked by the relationships among the characters and the drama of their ordinary lives. When the mystery is solved, it's all at once, as told by one character is a rather anti-climactic sort of way. The plot turns, such as they are, are either too predictable or too left field. The relationship between Jasper and "Mad Jack" Lionel is obvious from the start, where as Charlie's climactic encounter with his mother was one of my "oh come on" DeGrassi moments.
I'm not even so sure I agree that the characters are all that well done (although I do agree the books is heavily character focused). Certain aspects are done really well. The bantering relationship between Charlie and Jeffrey was fresh, genuine and very clever (and spot on with the Superman vs. Batman debated). Also, the budding, uneasy relationship between Charlie and Jasper felt pretty genuine and believable. But other aspects didn't seem so believable. Charlie's mother, for instance, is just unexplainably off-the-wall hostile. yes, we understand that she's frustrated living in Corrigan, and yes, we understand she's been spoiled by her rich, doting family in the city. But it doesn't quite gel into a believable portrait of a woman who could be that unfeeling and cruel to her own son.
Even Charlie doesn't seem to add up, or, at least his role in the story doesn't. Of all the kids/people in Corrigan, Charlie was the only one that Jasper felt he could turn to? Why? Why not someone older and wiser? What was it about Charlie that drew him, and how did he even really know Charlie? And once Charlie was involved, what was his role? I kept expecting Charlie to make a difference, even a small one. He could have, for instance, stood up for Jasper, or even Jeffrey, even in a small way. Charlie spends the book worrying about doing the "right" thing, but then he never really does much of anything. Eliza and Jasper to the work of the story, while Charlie just seems like a frame through which to view everything.
Overall, this book is enjoyable enough if you're simply looking for a light read (and especially if you're a cricket fan), but it sours a little upon closer reflection. There are a few other holes that I haven't touched on because it's hard to say much without giving too much away. The book does do an admirable job of exploring the dark secrets that often lurk beneath the "too nice" life of the most "respectable" members of society. The target audience will probably appreciate that aspect, as they're probably become aware of it in their own lives. Jasper, Charlie, Jeffrey, and, to a lesser extent, Eliza are all engaging characters which helps make it a decent read. I'd say this book is a good effort from a relatively new author with some good potential, but I'd look for more from future books.
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