jumpingthenail

__Jumping the Nail__ by Eve Bunting ISBN: 0-15-241357-X c1991 172 pages R.L. 6.0 Points-6

Good sections to read aloud: -middle of page 7 through the end of page 8 (where Dru explains what “the nail” is and the history of it)

Summary: The “jumping place” is called the Nail. It is ninety feet from the top of the cliff to the water below---where the ocean is said to be bottomless. Dru had heard about people jumping the Nail, but no one has attempted it after a terrible accident 10 years ago. Now Scooter, a boy her age, and her best friends boyfriend, decides that he is going to jump, and he insists that Elisa, his girlfriend (Dru’s best friend) jump with him. What happens once others think that it is a cool idea?

YA Fiction--teen issues; peer pressure; boyfriends/girlfriends; high school

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