Jonah, the Whale (APL Sig)

by Susan Richards Shreve

Book Overview

After moving to a new town, Jonah, an eleven-year-old with a big imagination, reinvents himself as a talk show host, hoping this will somehow bring his absent father back This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0590371347
• ISBN13: 9780590371346
• Release Date: September 1999
• Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks
• Length: 10 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.3" x 7.6"
• Age Range: 9 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 7

Customer Reviews

Good and funny book

I am a third grader and thought that the book was very good and funny. It is a Sunshine State Book in Florida and I took a Reading Counts test from it. It was hard to put the book down. I recommend this book to anyone that likes 'happy ending' books.

Jonah the Whale

I'm glad I purchased this book. Jonah is an appealing character, someone you sympathize with and root for--his propensity to "make lemonade out of lemons" is refreshing. I wish more kids today would see the potential within themselves like Jonah did. The only thing I did not like about the book was the plot twist to the mother-boyfriend relationship at the end of the book--not very realistic, but then maybe there's too much realism in children's books these days. Otherwise, it's a wonderful book.