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Title details for Jelly Roll by Mere Joyce - Available

Jelly Roll

by Mere Joyce
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When Jenny and Austin end up at a March Break leadership camp together, Jenny thinks her week will be miserable.

At school, Jenny Royce is bullied by Grade A Jerk Austin Parks. And now, not only is her tormentor spending March Break at the same retreat, she and Austin are grouped together for the camp's main assignment! They have to run a stall at a local farmer's market. The market could be a lot of fun. But when Jenny learns that Austin wants their group's project to fail, she has to decide if she can risk standing up to him.

This short novel is a high-interest, low-reading level book for middle-grade readers who are building reading skills, want a quick read or say they don't like to read! The epub edition of this title is fully accessible.

  • Creators

  • Series

    Orca Currents

  • Publisher

  • Release date

    July 14, 2020

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Read

      • ISBN: 9781459826311

    • EPUB ebook

      • ISBN: 9781459826311
      • File size: 1543 KB

  • Languages

    • English

  • Levels

    • Lexile® Measure: 610
    • Text Difficulty: 2-3

  • Reviews

    • Kirkus

      June 1, 2020
      A girl forced together with a long-standing bully refuses to let him see her cry. Jenny is excited to attend a weeklong leadership camp for eighth and ninth graders. As their culminating project, each group of four campers will present a "locally grown" stall at a farmers market. Jenny is intrigued by the theme since cooking is a passion of hers, bolstered by her father's food-truck business. She feels "it would be too easy to make fun of the big girl who feels most at home in the kitchen," so she keeps her love secret despite her healthy embrace of her size. When Jenny's about to board the camp bus, she discovers that the boy who makes her life difficult at school, Austin, is also attending the camp. Years ago, he coined a rude nickname for her and continues to ridicule her. When it's revealed that Austin is also in her project group, Jenny fears this week will be both miserable and fruitless. The narration makes clear the emotional and physical results of bullying, for both the targeted victims and those within the sphere of influence. Working within a low page count, Joyce deftly endows each character (presumed white) with a rich inner life, even Austin. As with other Orca Current titles, it requires only low-level mastery to decode, so struggling readers can easily access the mindful, satisfying tale. A sweet success. (Fiction. 9-14)

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Formats

  • OverDrive Read
  • EPUB ebook

subjects

Languages

  • English

Levels

  • Lexile® Measure:610
  • Text Difficulty:2-3

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