Caught Between the Pages

by Marlene Carvell

A slacker studentas perspective changes when he gets his hands on his teacheras journal. PJ Barnes is on the fast track to failing high school, and everyone is riding him about itaespecially his English teacher, Mrs. Jordan. Then, somehow, her personal journal gets mixed up with his homework papers. Thinking heall find the answers to the next quiz, he starts reading and quickly discovers itas not what he expected. As insights and family secrets surface,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0525479163
• ISBN13: 9780525479161
• Release Date: July 2008
• Publisher: Dutton Children's Books
• Length: 230 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.3"
• Age Range: 12 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 7 and higher

Customer Reviews

Great albeit slightly flawed book.

After reading Chapter 1, I thought caught between the pages was going t be a futile attempt at capturing the mind of atroubled teenager of today but I was surprised. It was surprisingly good and covered a lot of the common problems teenagers have today. I'm in 11th and I'm sorta a loner so I understand the problems we have because I like to observe my surroundings and I occasionally overhear talk of drug abuse and the like. I did not like the ill-explained ending and false summary on the inside cover though and that is why I give it 4 stars.

Another Winner

I read "Caught between the Pages" because I had enjoyed the first two award winning books that Ms.Carvell wrote. Although it is a great shift in style from the free verse of her second book and the American Indian background of both her first and second books, the beauty of this story, as in all three, is her sensitive, skillful and honest treatment of the human condition - specifically of the increased angst of young people during difficult times. Her former students must be grateful to have had her in their lives.