Double Dutch

this is a fabulous book! thts all i hav 2 say

In Double Dutch, Delia and Randy has secrets Delia and her friend Yolanda compete on their Double Dutch team. Yolanda can not seem to ever tell the truth and Delia seems to always try to turn the attention away from her when the teacher is talking about reading. All the students in the school are

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walking away from the very scary twins, Titan and Tabu. These two twins went on T.V. and scared everyone. Randy has been living by himself and is running out of food and money. He is starting to worry about his father. Delia thinks everything is okay till her coach tells her that the new requirements for eligibility for Double Dutch is to pass the State Test. This is a problem for her. Randy finds something disturbing out about his father. The whole school deals with something really traumatic.

This is a great book to use in middle school. The teacher could focus on Delia's urgency to hide the fact she cannot read. Teachers should encourage the students to tell teachers any problem they are having. Another issue that teachers could focus on is bullying. The twins were a big deal in this book and everybody at their school altered everything they did to those twins. Teachers should make sure they are not also giving into to bullying.

I absolutely loved this book. It was very enjoyable and caught my attention from the beginning. I think that teachers should put this book in their classroom library.

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This book is the greatest book ever! You will really like it. If you like real life stories and mysteries about disappearance then you'll love this book. Great book honestly! A page turner!

This book has three different stories that the author uses to mingle the three characters together. In all three stories, there are secrets that are trying to be hidden and others are trying to be found. There is a lot of suspense in this book as well as emotion. Fast reading book and a great read!

Double Dutch is a great read. It gives an insight into the struggles of one young man and how he sets his path for greater things by leaving his mother's shadowing influence. Luther T. is a hero that we want to win. You will find yourself cheering for him by the end of the book

This is a great story that combines the stories of 3 kids. One girl struggles with reading, one boy hides that his dad has been missing, and then twins are causing problems with all the other students. All 3 hold secrets which keep the book suspenseful.
This is great for all students because

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everyone has deep secrets in them that we don't share.

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Delia loves double dutch, but is afraid that she be forced to quit the team after a standardized test will reveal her secret of not being able to read. She must learn to open up and rely on those who care about her if she can continue the sport she loves.
Draper's characters are well developed and

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should appeal to YA readers. Conversations that aren't essential to the plot, such as Yolanda's constant lies, help give the story a realistic feel.

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Draper, Sharon, Double Dutch. New York: Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2002.
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Sharon Draper’s Double Dutch was written for children 11 years old and up. The title “Double Dutch” is a reference to the “Double Dutch” jump rope competition that the main character,

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Delia, participates in. Although Delia is an extremely talented jump roper, her problem is that she is illiterate and has hid her inability to read from her parents and teachers. If she doesn’t pass the reading proficiency test, she won’t be able to enter the ninth grade or to continue her beloved jump rope activities. The book is not very well put together. Many of the conversations in the story seem to go nowhere and some of the writing is awkward and difficult to follow. The story of Delia’s illiteracy problem may have relevance to children with the same or similar learning deficiencies, but I would not recommend the book to young people in general, unless they are hardcore jump rope fanatics!

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The story of a girl named Delia who loves her friends and double dutch more than anything. They actually form her team in double dutch competitions. But Delia has a secret. She can't read, and when a standardized test threatens to crush her dreams of winning the tournament Delia is torn about what

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to do. Her friends have their own problems and secrets to contend with. Not to mention the troubling rumors surrounding the towering Tolliver twins that attend their school. In all of the craziness surrounding her world double dutch is the only escape Delia has. Good for children who struggle with reading it shows them that they are not alone and that these problems can persist even all the way up to middle school.

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The secondary storylines are not as compelling as the double dutch one, but still an inside look at double dutch.

The secondary storylines are not as compelling as the double dutch one, but still an inside look at double dutch.

The secondary storylines are not as compelling as the double dutch one, but still an inside look at double dutch.

Narrated by Patricia Floyd. Booktalk: p 35: Down in the valley where the green grass grows...Delia loves Double Dutch jump-roping. For her, it's more than just exercise. It's the magic of feeling the rhythm of the ropes, the jumping and stepping; hearing the pop and the whip of the ropes on the

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floor during a competition. Double Dutch also keeps her mind off of things. Like school and homework and the scary Tolliver twins who everyone swears are going to blow up the school one day. But most of all, it keeps her mind off the fact that, although she's already in 8th grade, Delia still doesn't know how to read. And with the 8th grade state proficiency tests coming up, it looks like the one thing she cannot do might keep her from doing what she loves most.

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This is a Cincinnati-set book, part of my goal to read all the novels set in my hometown. Double Dutch is by Sharon M. Draper, a Cincinnati-area high school teacher; the book's main characters are eighth graders on a local Double Dutch team. Their dream is to qualify for the state competition and

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then compete in nationals in a year where the national competition is being held in Cincinnati. There's not a lot of local color to be honest: quick mentions of things like the Cincinnati Post are basically it.

Other than that, it's an okay book. Some of the characters are fun, the central dilemmas (a girl who's managed to make it to the eighth grade without being able to read, and a boy whose dad has abandoned him) are interesting, but some of the dialogue is very awkward and a couple of the happenings are incredibly contrived, even melodramatic. The resolution to the bullying subplot grates the most. It is aimed at middle-schoolers, though, so I'm not exactly its target audience.

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