Jasper Jones, Craig Silvey
Jasper Jones, Craig Silvey
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Jasper Jones

Author: Craig Silvey

Narrator: Matt Cowlrick

Unabridged: 11 hr 10 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/27/2012


Synopsis

A Michael L. Printz Honor Book

Charlie Bucktin, a bookish thirteen year old, is startled one summer night by an urgent knock on his bedroom window. His visitor is Jasper Jones, an outcast in their small mining town, and he has come to ask for Charlie's help. Terribly afraid but desperate to impress, Charlie follows him into the night.

Jasper takes him to his secret glade, where Charlie witnesses Jasper's horrible discovery. With his secret like a brick in his belly, Charlie is pushed and pulled by a town closing in on itself in fear and suspicion. He locks horns with his tempestuous mother, falls nervously in love, and battles to keep a lid on his zealous best friend. In the simmering summer where everything changes, Charlie learns why the truth of things is so hard to know, and even harder to hold in his heart.

About The Author

CRAIG SILVEY wrote his first novel, Rhubarb, at the age of 19. It became a bestseller and was chosen as the "One Book" for the Perth International Writers Festival. Craig is the singer/songwriter for the band The Nancy Sikes! and lives in Fremantle, Australia.


Reviews

Goodreads review by PattyMacDotComma on October 16, 2017

5★ At the end of this book, the author thanked, among others, librarians and booksellers who never get the credit they deserve for supporting books. I would like to thank the librarians of the Goodreads Aussie Readers group for their inventive reading challenges which send readers to book lists and g......more

Goodreads review by Krystal on May 11, 2019

And here we have another favourite that did not do it for me. I don't know why books set in small Australian towns are so freaking dull. I mean, there's a murder mystery! How do you turn that into boring? In this case, tell the story from a 13-year old boy's POV, and make him a philosophical little sn......more

Goodreads review by Vanessa on October 21, 2016

This is so quintessentially Australian, a real coming of age tale. This book transports us back in time to a small country town in Western Australia during a scorching hot summer set in 1965. The story starts when two boys who have no involvement with each other prior, one a quiet bookish boy and th......more

Goodreads review by Suz on October 17, 2022

Where else would you see such gold offerings such as these cards are as useless as a Chocolate teapot and sassy time. I love small happenings like these in a novel, and will quickly warm to these special things. There is no way my little, insignificant review of this classic novel, can convey the le......more

Goodreads review by AMEERA on July 30, 2017

3.75 Good book with a little drama......more


Quotes

Starred Review, Kirkus Reviews, March 15, 2011:
"The author’s keen ear for dialogue is evident in the humorous verbal sparring between Charlie and Jeffrey, typical of smart 13-year-old boys...A richly rewarding exploration of truth and lies by a masterful storyteller."

Starred Review, The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, April 2011:
"Silvey’s sure-footed, evocative prose, intelligent humor, and careful plot structuring may well ensure this Aussie import lasting status."

Starred Review, The Horn Book Magazine, May/June 2011:
"The mood and atmosphere of the 1960s small-town Australian setting is perfectly realized—suspenseful, menacing, and claustrophobic—with issues of race and class boiling just below the surface."

Starred Review, School Library Journal, June 2011:
"Silvey is a master of wit and words, spinning a coming-of-age tale told through the mind of a young Holden Caulfield."


Awards

  • ALA Best Books for Young Adults
  • Bank Street Child Study Children's Book Award
  • Michael L. Printz Honor Book
  • New Jersey Garden State Teen Book Award
  • School Library Journal Best Book of the Year
  • Young Adult Services Division, School Library Journal Author Award