i love this !

                                                Whale Talk This is a book I enjoyed the detail and the theme is very good when I first started reading this authors series I was amazed by the twist in these books. This book wasn’t his best It just starts out slow and as long as you stick with it. The character T.j Jones an adopted Asian-African-European a very out standing athlete but refuses to join any teams because of his anger management issues. The school is very disappointed at him because he won’t support them. The school shows favoritism to Mike Barbour a stud or jock as they call him but a he is a vicious bully bulling Chris Coughlin a kid with autism but T.J hates it so he puts a stop to it.                 John Simet his English teacher convinces T.J to start a swimming team and to be the captain. So now all he has to do is gather up people one of them is Chris, Dan the big muscular body builder, Tay Roy Kimble, the musician and then there is Andy Mott the one legged antisocial disrespect full but then starts to open up a little. Simon hopes that the team can meet letterman jacket standards so they can embarrass the athletics. They are renting out a gym when T.J stumbles across a homeless man that he offers him a job to train them in the weight room.                 Meanwhile Barbour has a racist friend named Rich Marshall who’s his old Gf had a daughter with another man and she’s half black so he hates her but TJs therapist has her and he offers her  to let Heidi stay at is house while things cool down at home. He begins to like this girl a lot but she is emotionally in shock.                 While Tj has met his letterman requirement but Chris has not so they offer mike Barbour a challenge if he can outswim Chris insulting Chris he accepts the challenge. The following year he goes and enters a tournament Hoop Fest were teams come all around to win Mikes team is very good but while they are playing TJs father is on the side line with Heidi while rich Marshall is going to get his gun he’s aiming at her but then his dad jumps in front of the bullet. His dad before he met his mom he had had an affair and Found out he had another so nobody new about so to relies he has a brother.               

Whale Talk was a touching moving story. It keeps the reader interested all the way till the last word. T.J. is at a constant struggle with school and at home mostly because of his mixed race and lack of school spirit. This book teaches alot of lessons about life. I would recommend it to any young adult.