Like Jake and Me
Mavis Jukes / Author, Lloyd Bloom / Illustrator Dragonfly Book
The Newbery Honor-winning story of a small boy meetingand learning to lovehis new stepfather. Ages 6-10. (September)
Details
Reviewed on: 11/02/1987
Genre: Children's
- Amazon
- Apple Books
- Barnes & Noble
- Bookshop
- IndieBound
- Share
- Tweet
- Copy Link
More By and About this Authorchevron_right
- SmokeMavis JukesAnimal lovers in particular will relate to Jukes's (Like Jake and Me ) novel about a 12-year-old's move from rural Idaho to an old farmstead in Continue reading »
- Blackberries in the DarkMavis JukesThe Newberry Honor author tells a heartwarming story of a boy visiting his grandmother after his grandfather's death. Ages 7-1O. Continue reading »
- It's a Girl Thing: How to Stay Healthy, Safe and in ChargeMavis JukesIt's difficult to imagine an adolescent girl who wouldn't benefit from this candid, supportive and often genuinely funny guide to surviving--and enjoying--those awkward pre- and early-teen years. Continue reading »
- The Guy Book: An Owner's Manual: Maintenance, Safety, and Operating Instructions for BoysMavis JukesLoaded with information about puberty, personal hygiene, dating, sex even the prom Mavis Jukes's The Guy Book: An Owner's Manual puts boys in the driver's seat. Cheeky chapter headings (e.g., Continue reading »
- Be Healthy! It's a Girl Thing: Food, Fitness, and Feeling GreatMavis Jukes, Lilian W. Y. CheungLearn how to eat right and feel good with Be Healthy! It's a Girl Thing: Food, Fitness, and Feeling Great! by Mavis Jukes and Lilian Cheung. This guide to a healthy lifestyle includes nutritional Continue reading »
- No One Going NashvilMavis JukesJukes's impressive first book tells of Sonia, a girl who will fight for the dog she loves. Ages 7-10. Continue reading »
- Getting EvenMavis JukesMaggie no longer knows whom to listen to when Corky, the school pest (and principal's nephew) puts a hairball in her sandwich and extorts peppermints from classmates. Her parents, divorced, have Continue reading »
- Expecting the UnexpectedMavis JukesFull of broad humor and not-so-subtle ironies, this lighthearted novel shows how 12-year-old River learns the facts of life in a pilot sex education class taught in her school by peppy Mrs. Furley, a Continue reading »
- Planning the ImpossibleMavis JukesNot a whole lot has changed in Mr. Elmo's sixth-grade class since Expecting the Unexpected. In this equally hilarious and energetic sequel, River, the irrepressible heroine, is still awaiting Continue reading »
- Expecting the UnexpectedMavis Jukes, Navis JukesPW called this comedy of sixth-grade manners ""full of broad humor and not-so-subtle ironies,"" and praised Jukes as ""well attuned to preadolescent concerns and attitudes about puberty."" Ages Continue reading »
- Cinderella 2000Mavis JukesThis sassy Cinderella story centers on 14-year-old Ashley Ella Toral, who has just received an invitation to the biggest bash of the season, a New Millennium's Eve party held at the prestigious Ocean Continue reading »
- Cinderella 2000: Looking Back . . .Mavis JukesThe ball in this ""sassy"" Cinderella story is a New Year's Eve Millennium bash. ""Besides offering plenty of laughs, this updated classic adds much color to characters traditionally painted in black Continue reading »
- I'll See You in My DreamsMavis JukesStrong, centered and free from fear, a girl imagines herself as a skywriter bidding farewell to her dying uncle, a former pilot, in I'll See You in My Dreams (1993) by Mavis Jukes, illus. by Continue reading »
- Lights Around the PalmMavis JukesEmma speaks the language of animals, though no oneespecially her brother Bobbelieves her, and her mother only humors her. She wants Christmas lights around the palm tree outside the house for a Continue reading »
- Wild Iris BloomMavis JukesWhile her parents are ``gallivanting around Europe'' for six weeks in the fall, Iris is stuck at home with Mrs. Fuller, the dorky housekeeper. Left to her own devices, the irrepressible 12-year-old Continue reading »
- No One Is Going to NashvilleMavis Jukes, Jukes MavisA girl with veterinary aspirations--proud possessor of a goose and an alligator lizard--has designs on a stray dog in this tender, true-to-life tale. Ages 7-10. Continue reading »
- I'll See You in My DreamsMavis JukesThe familiar sentiments of an Amelia Earhart-inspired fantasy (``If she were a skywriter, she would wait for the sky to turn pink and blue--the colors of dusk or dawn'') that open this heartfelt Continue reading »
- The New KidMavis JukesJukes puts a lightheartedly realistic spin on the experience of being new in school. A job opportunity for Carson?s single father means a midyear move from Pasadena to Northern California. Carson?s Continue reading »
- ANNA'S CORNBarbara SantucciDelicately overlapping themes about the cycles of life, Santucci (Loon Lake) crafts a memorable, touching story about the death of a girl's much-loved Continue reading »
- Arthur, for the Very First TimePatricia MacLachlanThe Newbery Medal-winning author's first book tells of a boy's spending the summer away from home, and how he learns to look at the world in different ways. Ages 8-11. Continue reading »
- No One Going NashvilMavis JukesJukes's impressive first book tells of Sonia, a girl who will fight for the dog she loves. Ages 7-10. Continue reading »
- Hear O Israel: A Story of the Warsaw GhettoTerry Walton TresederTreseder's brief, emotionally searing first-person novel calls to mind the simmering power of survivors' accounts. Written in the voice of a Jewish boy, Isaac, the book is suffused with a deeply felt Continue reading »
- Treehouse TalesAnne Isaacs, Anne IssacsIsaacs (Swamp Angel) rustles up another nourishing batch of tales about American settlers, this time for middle-graders. Set over different years in the early 1880s, each of three stories focuses on Continue reading »
- YonderTony Johnston, Tony JohnsonFirst published in 1988, Yonder by Tony Johnston, illus. by Lloyd Bloom, uses a plum tree to trace the generations of a 19th-century farm family. ""There comes the farmer with a brand-new bride,/ Continue reading »
- Ghost CatcherDennis HaseleySet in a sun-baked Southwestern village, this highly atmospheric parable tells of a man named Ghost Catcher, who has no shadow. A loner, he refuses help from his friends and neighbors, but is always Continue reading »
- But No CandyGloria HoustonIn melodious prose, Houston looks at WW II through the eyes of Lee, an American girl living in the country. Every day the youngster takes a nickel ``from Mama's flowered dish'' and goes downstairs to Continue reading »
- No One Is Going to NashvilleMavis Jukes, Jukes MavisA girl with veterinary aspirations--proud possessor of a goose and an alligator lizard--has designs on a stray dog in this tender, true-to-life tale. Ages 7-10. Continue reading »
- Goatherd and the Shepherdess: 2a Tale from Ancient GreeceLenny HortHort (How Many Stars in the Sky?) transforms and condenses a sexy pastoral romance from third-century Greece into a tragic but ultimately uplifting story of a love triangle-a decidedly odd Continue reading »
- Goodbye, Walter MalinskiHelen RecorvitsFirst-time author Recorvits makes a poised and confident debut with this bittersweet Depression-era tale of a Polish immigrant family. Since Pa got laid off from his job at the cotton mill, ""There Continue reading »
Featured Children's Reviews
How You Grow Wings
Rimma Onoseta
Onoseta’s devastatingly vulnerable debut, told nonlinearly in two teen Nigerian girls’ dual perspectives, portrays a tempestuous sisterhood amid colorism, familial trauma, and Continue reading »
Tumble
Celia C Pérez
Humor and heartfelt emotion reign supreme in a quirky narrative that centers the importance of family, blood or blended. Twelve-year-old Adela Ramírez, who’s of Mexican descent, Continue reading »
Sal Boat (A Boat by Sal)
Thyra Heder
“Sal loved the water. He liked to imagine it moving under his feet.” With junk from his mother’s garage and pickings from local businesses, he starts building. In the family’s Continue reading »
Rick the Rock of Room 214
Julie Falatko
Rick, a lumpy gray rock with googly eyes and a sweet smile, has been sitting on Room 214’s Nature Finds shelf “for as long as he can remember” while on-the-move human students, Continue reading »
chevron_right
