Recently, I finished reading "Catching Jordan" by Miranda Keanelly. And it is about a girl who is starting QB for her high school football team. Everyone is jealous of her. The boys are jealous because she is an amazing football player but the girls are jealous because she gets to spend so much time with the football boys. Then a new quarterback named Ty comes and Jordan likes him. They compete for starting QB. Jordan's best friend, Sam gets jealous and feels that he is starting to lose Jordan because suddenly she spends all her free time hanging out with Ty.
I think Catching Jordan was basically about Jordan finding her place. In between chapters Jordan would write poems that were about her life and feelings. There is a lot going on in Catching Jordan and all the characters play an important part. For example, Ty adds to the emotion of the story with his family history and Jordan has problems with her dad because her dad plays professional football so he has seen many injuries and doesn't want Jordan getting hurt.
Another issue was that all the high school kids in the story were seniors so they were waiting for their acceptance letters and it added a lot of emotion to the the story because when a character was anxious or stressed the reader could really feel that.
Alexa, try to get away from retelling more quickly and move into theorizing and analysis.
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ReplyDeleteNice post! I thought you did a good job with summarizing what was going on in the book. I also thought you did a good job analyzing how the characters are important to Jordan's whole situation. What do you think about all that you explained? Good job!
-Georgia P.