Juggling With Mandarins by V M Jones

Juggling With Mandarins by V M Jones

Pip's just your average teenage boy. Lives at home with his older brother, little sister, mum and dad. Plays in the local soccer team, though not very well, and is absolutely mortified every time his dad turns up to watch, because his dad, well, he does have a tendency to shout. Loudly. two, three, four - how many mandarins can Pip juggle? A coming-of-age novel about Pip, whose father wants him to be everything that Pip is not. Pip is good at English, like his mother; but Pip's father wants him to be a soccer star like Nick, Pip's brother, and to win at any cost. When Pip's English teacher challenges her students to learn how to juggle three balls, Pip is determined that he will do better than that. He sets his sights high and finally learns how to juggle not three balls, but five mandarins. Along the way, he also finds the courage to confront his father and express his anger and resentment - to publicly claim the right to be his own person and live his life on his own terms. Juggling with Mandarins is a novel about growing up. It asserts the importance of living life on your own terms, and of competing for enjoyment rather than reward. It explores the complex love-hate relationship between a father and son, and the sometimes painful process of realising that parents are, after all, only human. Ages 12+

V M Jones lives in Christchurch, her previous novel Buddy won the Junior Fiction and Best First Book awards in 2003 NZ Post Children's Book Awards. The Serpents of Arakesh is the first book in The Karazan Quartet.

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ISBN 13	9781869504625
ISBN 10	1869504623
Titre	Juggling With Mandarins
Auteur	V M Jones
État	Non disponible
Type de reliure	Paperback
Éditeur	HarperCollins Publishers (New Zealand)
Année de publication	2003-06-25
Nombre de pages	256
Prix	Winner of New Zealand Post Children's Book Awards: Junior Fiction 2004, Short-listed for LIANZA Children's Book Awards: Esther Glen Medal for Junior Fiction 2004
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