Senioritis [Paperback]

Tate Thompson (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 2003

A group of high school teenagers have to attend a 3-5 p.m. program to make up credits, or to correct inappropriate behavior before they can graduate. And a very compassionate mentor encourages them to correct their failings as they vent their anger against teachers in their journals. Biggest strength of this novel is that low or high level readers can pick up this book and find at least one character who they know, or who they actually are.

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About the Author

Tate Thompson is a high school teacher in Junction City, Kansas, who lives in a world of teens——black, white, and multicultural. "Many of those kids are alive in my head," he said so I wrote their fictional characters' voices out to make a fast-paced page turner that keeps the attention of all my students. His low-high level readers loved his book "The Space Between." "Senioritis" was geared specifically for the TV-oriente teenagers.

Product Details

• Paperback: 161 pages
• Publisher: May Davenport Publishers; 1st edition (June 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 094386447X
• ISBN-13: 978-0943864471
• Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.4 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (34 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,620,942 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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26 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome Young Adult Novel! Nothing else quite like it!, June 16, 2003

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Patrick Hancock (Junction City, KS United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Senioritis (Paperback)

Senioritis is a young adult novel that will actually resonate with teenage readers. Capturing the diverse voices of a group of discontent teenagers, Thompson explores the very real problems of today's high schoolers. Unlike a lot of young adult novels, which only dance on the edge of serious issues, this novel directly addresses sex, depression, racism, abusive boyfriends, and disappointment in hypocritical adults. The novel pulls no punches in dealing with these issues, yet ultimately celebrates the amazing resilience of today's youth. With seven narrative voices coming together to tell a fast-paced story, everyone will find a character to identify with. Each of these narrators must successfully complete the after-school program in order to graduate, but this is only a starting point for all the internal strife and external drama that engulfs the students as they begin to move beyond high school and into a new world where they must discover their own values and voices. From Nakiesha--a sistah with serious attitude--to the intellectual Gemini--who sits in a desk "pondering the ramifications of my recent juvenile impulsiveness"--these are all characters who immediately jump off of the page and into the reader's heart. As a lover of young adult fiction, I was thrilled to find a book that actually captures the voices of real young people--black and white, male and female. This is quite an accomplishment by Tate Thompson, and Senioritis is a book to be read, read again, and shared with friends. You will love it!!!

20 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars WOW!!, September 14, 2003

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Patricia (Orange County, VA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Senioritis (Paperback)

This book was amazing in every way. I have never read a book that showed more about what teenage life is all about these days. The problems these few teenagers incountered throughout this book completely blew me away. I never would have thought a 17 year old boy could be half as brilliant as Gemini was. The author of this book is a truely amazing writer. I read about scandals I had thought only a full grown adult could handle, but these students,who were thought to be deliquents, managed to get by easily. Through much suffering and sadness along with great joy these kids learned who they really were. This books makes its reader feel as if they are in the same classroom with these students struggling to figure out where to go next in their lives. I felt like I was apart of their lives, in their world while I read. I couldn't put this book down once.

18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best Young Adult Book Written!, September 22, 2003

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Ashely Reynolds (Charlottesville, VA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Senioritis (Paperback)

I believe that this book has been one of the best written young adult books ever! The author is very talented and seems to know how to grab the attention of an audience, young and old! I love how he can write a whole book full of journals from characters he's made up and make it sound as if it were from actual students! This book really shows his passion for understanding and communicating with his students! Good Luck on your future books Tate Thompson! You're going to go far as an author, you are a great writer!