The Horn Book Magazine, May 1st, 2001
Chris Crutcher Whale Talk 219 pp. Greenwillow 4/01 ISBN 0-688-18019-1 15.95 Library edition ISBN 0-06-029369-1 15.89 (High School)
Once again, Crutcher has his characters doing what they do best: exercising their bodies in order to exorcise their emotional and spiritual demons. A new set of underdogs lands in familiar Crutcher territory--the athletic playing fields of the small-town Northwest--where the "giant assholes" of the world are tempered by a few really cool adults. Mixed-race T.J., adopted by two of the latter after two of the former neglected, abused, and walked out on him at age ...
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