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Jimmy Falcon Each of these spirits help Jeremy find his way through a quagmire of bullying and racial taunts toward a stable future Jeremy StoneAn enjoyable read Light and heavy in all the right places Jeremy Stone I really enjoyed the format of the book It put a punch in all the right places Jeremy Stone My favorite YA book this year An adolescent learning wisdom in dealing with the problem s that have been dealt him Sometimes this wisdom comes from the voices within himself Jeremy Stone Actual rating 1. Jeremy stoneleigh 5 starsI cannot even begin to explain how disappointed and disheartened I felt that an author who.

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Lesley Choyce is a novelist and poet living at Lawrencetown Beach Nova Scotia He is the author of than 80 books for adults teens and children He teaches in the English Department and Transition Year Program at Dalhousie University He is a year round surfer and founding member of the 1990s spoken word rock band The SurfPoets Choyce also runs Pottersfield Press a small literary publishing house and hosted the national TV show Off The Page for many years His books have been translated into Spanish French German and Danish and he has been awarded the Dartmouth Book Award and the Ann Connor Brimer Award Lesley Choyce was born in New Jersey in 1951 and moved to Canada in 1978 and became a citizen His YA novels concern things l Lesley Choyce is a novelist and poet living at Lawrencetown Beach Nova Scotia He is the author of than 80 books for adults teens and children He teaches in the English Department and Transition Year Program at Dalhousie University He is a year round surfer and founding member of the 1990s spoken word rock band The SurfPoets Choyce also runs Pottersfield Press a small literary publishing house and hosted the national TV show Off The Page for many years His books have been translated into Spanish French German and Danish and he has been awarded the Dartmouth Book Award and the Ann Connor Brimer Award Lesley Choyce was born in New Jersey in 1951 and moved to Canada in 1978 and became a citizen His YA novels concern things like skateboarding surfing racism environmental issues organ transplants and rock bands site_link Jeremy Stone the new young adult novel from acclaimed author Lesley Choyce is told in free verse format After moving from a residential school to a new school in a new community Jeremy a First Nations teenage boy is trying to find out where he fits in the world He soon meets Caitlan an intense girl who tells him about another boy a boyfriend of hers who has committed suicide Jeremy isn t sure whether he has much to offer Caitlan given his own uncertainties but he is solid and supportive towards his new friend A lot of the support comes from Old Man the spirit of Jeremy s dead grandfather with whom he has frequent illuminating conversations In fact Jeremy has frequent contact with the spirit world his grandfather Jenson the suicide as well as a childhood friend of Jeremy s according to the afterword spoke to many members of First Nations and taught some of them took care in his portrayal of First Nations beliefs Yet he conveyed the most hurtful and disgusting and insulting portrayal of depression and suicidal behaviour Issues that concern First Nations I wish I could rate this book one star hell 0 zero star for its portrayal of mental illness but in the other end there were race and colonization issues that were addressed here with sensitivity and a well deserved rawness The poetry is poignant and beautiful most of times I m a big fan of free verse in novels and I can easily admit to having been charmed by the writing style But the depression The suicidal behaviour So to the author How could you sir Never had I read a book that I wanted so badly to write a lengthy email to the author Usually mental illness is misrepresented or it s part of a movement of every other book or movie has done it Mental illness is the shrug authors do because they believe if they keep the slurs out and turn things a little angsty then it s sensitive and accurate This makes me rage I go on lengthy rants and I m always the first one to advocate that authors should sit down and research and speak to individuals who live with these illnesses Yet this time it s different I feel sad I m not angry I m not furious I merely feel empty and so sad that the author has such little respect for and understanding of mental illness that he believes it to be a weakness of the mind In the 21st century He believes only weak individuals have depression or suicidal thoughts and behaviours He couldn t be wrong It saddens me that he would dismiss the pain of people with depression so easily Some of them have fought their illnesses for a while If they commit suicide in the end it s not because they are folding It s not because they are giving up It s because they are in excruciating amount of pain Every hour of every day That the author explicitly told these people in his book that had they been stronger they wouldn t be sick is just another way to tell them that they don t deserve his sensitivity or even worse that they don t deserve to be understood and heard because they are just weak This old idea depressive people are weak is what renders awareness so difficult even today And it breaks my heart that to this author social issues stop at issues of race while First Nations suicide rate is so high Today While they battle mental illness especially depression and addiction and have no support from the Canadian government and organisms specifically addressing these issues in their communities are still too few Today This is why I m sad instead of mad Jeremy Stone I was a tad disappointed when I learned that the author is not First Nation However he did does have relationships with Aboriginals and Mi kmaq students through his work as a professor at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia whose experiences and influence shaped this novel Jeremy and Caitlan both gave me very All the Bright Places vibes and the free verse format always takes me back to Ellen Hopkins who was my first introduction to free verse novels The verse didn t flow well for me in this one but I still enjoyed the story and the concept I kind of want to see of Jeremy Jeremy Stone

Jeremy Stone By Lesley Choyce

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I really enjoyed this book It s about a kid named Jeremy Stone who has a really bad life His dad left him when he was young his mom is an alcoholic and drug addict he has depression and suicidal thoughts and is confused with his love life with a girl named Caitlan Most of the book consists of him ranting about the little things that annoy and bother him when they shouldn t He s super worried about his mom ending up in a hospital any day He s got to worry about a bully at school named Paper Clip I would recommend this book because it shares the life through the eyes of a teenager that most kids encounter in life Jeremy Stone In this verse novel First Nations teen Jeremy has just come out of three years of elective mutism and moved to a new community where he s the only First Nations kid Things have been tough at home after his grandfather died his father left and his mother resorted to drugs and alcohol Now his mother has cut her addictions to all but tobacco but Jeremy still misses his father and still is far from fitting in at school He s helped though by Old Man the spirit of his grandfather who is often with him Then he meets Caitlin intense and troubled mourning the suicide of her friend Jenson bullied by kids at school Jeremy finds he can see and talk to Jenson and they both want to help Caitlin move on but how And how can Jeremy move on with his own life What is real and what is not I both loved and felt hesitation with this book Loved the verse and the spareness of the text loved how Jeremy just drifted in and out of contact with the spirits without panicking and accepted that other forms of reality exist I thought the problems he and Caitlin faced were brutally real and Jeremy found unusual ways to cope with them and maybe even make things better My hesitation comes in the maturity of the content lots of swearing drugs alcohol and cutting never Jeremy though and really nothing worse than you get in Alexie s Absolutely True Diary Also in that the author is white even though he s had lots of contact with First Nations students and their beliefs While we desperately need diversity in middle school YA fiction I want to be sure that a book would not be just a white person s wishful thinking about how someone else really is If this were fantasy or supernatural it would be no big deal and I know different cultures have different views of reality the Celts believed that time was like a bush both green and burning at the same time so that all times were essentially the same time But is this representative of real First Nations ways of belief Or just noble savage stereotyping Jeremy Stone I like the concept and the story line but I think the author could of explained things a little better I love the format in which she wrote this book it added a challenging element to this quick read I finished it in less than an hour so it is a great short book Overall I loved it the author just needed to explain a few things a little better I would probably give it 4. PDF Jeremy stoney creek 5 stars instead of four because it was definitely a fun and easy read for me Jeremy Stone This is a beautiful book It is a YA book written in free verse poetry The main character Jeremy is a First Nations teenager who comes from a troubled home and is trying to figure out who he is and how he fits into the world His story is compelling and very hard to put down It is an emotional and beautiful book and would highly recommend it to anyone This is the first book I have ever read by Lesley Choyce and I will not hesitate to pick up another by him Jeremy Stone.