**Danuta Gleed Literary Award finalist** **City of Victoria Butler Book Prize finalist** Intensely imaginative and darkly emotional, the weird and wonderful stories in Double Dutch deftly alternate between fantasy and reality, transporting readers into strange worlds that are at once both familiar
Double Dutch
β Scribed by Draper, Sharon M
- Book ID
- 108211928
- Publisher
- Atheneum Books for Young Readers
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 82 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781442435452
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
Delia loves Double Dutch. And she's good at it. Really good. So good that her team has a chance to win the World Double Dutch Championships this year -- Delia is sure of it. What she is less sure of is her chance of passing the school's state exam, because Delia has been using her success at Double Dutch to mask a secret that could jeopardize her place on the team, and also her future.
Delia's not the only one with a secret. Her potential boyfriend, Randy, has one too -- his dad has been missing for weeks, and Randy hasn't told anyone for fear he'll be put in a foster home. But he is running out of money and getting scared.
The one thing that isn't a secret is that their classmates, the Tolliver twins, are out to cause trouble. With their skull caps, angry demeanors, and hints of violence emanating from even the way they stalk down the school halls, they seem to enjoy intimidating the other kids. But will they cross the line from intimidation to violence?
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