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    Minn and Jake's Almost Terrible Summer

    By Janet S. Wong and Geneviève Côté

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    There are a few things / about your best friend
    that you can only learn / when you see where he's from.

    Minn knew / that Jake was from the city.
    But she didn't know / that his grandmother was Korean.
    That he liked taking bubble baths. / That his brother, Soup,
    might be an eating champion. / That Jake was a cheater,
    and that he had a . . . / girlfriend?!

    There are some things / about your best friend
    that it's better     not / to know.

    Bouncing free verse and playful black-and-white illustrations combine to make this a charming follow-up to Minn and Jake.

    Minn and Jake's Almost Terrible Summer is a 2009 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Publishers
    Release dateSep 29, 2015
    ISBN9781466894853
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    Minn and Jake's Almost Terrible Summer
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    Janet S. Wong

    Janet Wong was born in Los Angeles, California and grew up in Southern and Northern California. During her junior year in college, she lived in France, studying art history at the Universite de Bordeaux. When she returned from France, Janet founded the UCLA Immigrant Children's Art Project, a program focused on teaching refugee children to express themselves through art. Janet graduated from UCLA, summa cum laude, with a B.A. in History and College Honors. She then obtained her J.D. from Yale Law School, where she was a director of the Yale Law and Technology Association and worked for New Haven Legal Aid. After practicing corporate and labor law for a few years for GTE and Universal Studios Hollywood, she chose to write for young people instead. Janet's poems have been reprinted in many textbooks and anthologies, as well as in some more unusual venues. "Albert J. Bell" from A Suitcase of Seaweed was selected to appear on 5,000 subway and bus posters as part of the New York City Metropolitan Transit Authority's "Poetry in Motion" program, and poems from Behind the Wheel have been featured on a car-talk radio show. Janet's awards include the International Reading Association's "Celebrate Literacy Award," presented by the Foothill Reading Council for exemplary service in the promotion of literacy. She also has been appointed to the Commission on Literature of the National Council of Teachers of English. Janet's first two books have received several awards including the prestigious Stone Center Recognition of Merit, given by the Claremont Graduate School's Stone Center for Children's Books.

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      This is the second in a series of books about two unlikely friends, Minn – a tall, lizard- loving girl, and Jake, a very small boy. Separation, misunderstandings, and Jake’s often meddlesome little brother, Soup, almost combine to ruin Minn and Jake’s fifth grade summer; but honesty and a little dose of humility help to save summer.This book has a lot going for it, including the humorous sketches by Geneviève Côté. Its short length and minimal text on each page make it a good choice for reluctant readers. Additionally, protagonists of both sexes make this series appealing to boys as well as girls. The revelation that Jake is part Korean, adds a hint of multiculturalism and interest. When Minn meets Jake’s grandmother,“She whispers,You didn’t tell me you were Asian! Jake whispers back,Did you ever tell me that you’re white?Jake explains his hapa heritage.Hapa = slang for half-white, half-Asian.His mother is half-Korean, half-Norwegian.His father is half-German, half-French.Minn points out that Jake is not hapa, then,but three-quarters white,and only one-quarter Asian.OK, then, Jake says. Quarpa, I’m quarpa.Jake likes the sound of quarpa.It sounds like something with superpowers.”The best feature of Minn and Jake’s Almost Terrible Summer, though, is humor that children can relate to – as when Jake vomits at the all-you-can-eat buffet and is forced to wear his mother’s pink shirt. Minn and Jake are believable fifth grade friends.The free-verse style is appealing, but the choice of punctuation is distracting. In most instances, dialogue (including unspoken thought) is differentiated solely by the use of italics. However, Minn and Jake’s phone conversations and conversations between Jake and the boys from his old neighborhood, are written in script format,“MINN: Yup. (Your mom’s shirt?)JAKE: (Can you believe my mom?)She put the stupid pink shirt on me,she buttoned the buttons (daisy buttons!),she wiped my chin like a baby. PINK!(I can’t even stand to think about it now.)”Of course, today's kids, raised on IM, are not hung up on punctuation – or spelling, and perhaps they’ll find Wong’s format refreshing. Minn and Jake are likeable, believable fifth grade friends.The first title in this series, Minn and Jake, was a Bank Street College Best Children's Book of the Year and A Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books Blue Ribbon Book.