Whale Talk by Chris Crutcher-web 2.0 booktalk

Author: ddgp2

Date: July 10, 2009

by ddgp2
7-10-09
T.J. Jones can't understand football captain Mike Barbour's brutal, bullying ways.
I know that you hate everyone who's not able-bodied or white, but threatening a brain-damaged kid for wearing his dead brother's letter jacket? That's the lowest, man!
*##$!@$% YOU @#$#@!!!! Why you stickin' up for a retard anyway? You got athletic skills, but if you ain't gonna put your 'em to work for the football team, you're goin' down!
T.J. controls his urge to fight Barbour with his fists and comes up with a plan that will drive him crazy!
You, know? You're right. I do have skills. That's why I'm going to start a ragtag swim team and we're ALL going to earn letter jackets, including the "retard." How's that sound to you?
Oh !#@$@#$ NO!!! Ain't no way I'm gonna let the proud heritage of the letter jacket get loser all over it!
T.J. has no idea what he has begun. While his unlikely swim team becomes like a family, there are some very unstable people plotting to ruin everything.
Hey, man. I'm gonna need you and everybody else from the athletic department to help me destroy the chigger and his pack of losers.
Oh, I got your back. I'll kill the S.O.B. if I have to. I think he's got somethin' goin' on with my wife.