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EllRay Jakes is tired of being bullied by fellow classmate Jared Matthews. But when EllRay tries to defend himself, he winds up in trouble. Then his dad offers him a deal: If he stays out of trouble for one week, they'll go to Disneyland! EllRay says he can do it. But saying it and doing it are two very different things.
- Sales Rank: #64794 in Books
- Brand: Viking Juvenile
- Model: FBA-|280339
- Published on: 2012-02-02
- Released on: 2012-02-02
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 7.81" h x .31" w x 5.13" l, .14 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 128 pages
Review
-Warner is a dead-on observer of playground politics, and has a great ear for dialogue.+ -School Library Journal
About the Author
Sally Warner (www.sallywarner.com) has published more than twenty novels for young readers, including the Emma and EllRay Jakes series. She lives in Altadena, California with her husband and their not-so-miniature dachshund, Rocky.�
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30 of 32 people found the following review helpful.
My least favorite chapter book to date
By Sharon
I read this book to my two 6 year olds because it was on the 2012-2013 Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice for K-3. I would NOT recommend this book to other parents of young children. I should preface by saying that my children enjoyed the book and want to read the sequel. However, I was quite disappointed in the book, and in particular, its treatment of gender and of bullying.
First gender: Throughout the book EllRay makes sweeping statements about "girls do this, but boys don't" or the reverse. There is never any attempt to disprove these statements or show the similarities between boys and girls. It was so glaring that my 6 year old son finally said, "I don't like that he keeps saying, girls are like this, boys are like that."
The second issue is how bullying was treated. EllRay is bullied throughout the book, but never comes up with a good resolution. Although the teachers and parents suspect it, he never tells them. He keeps it a secret throughout the book, and never enlists adult help. In the end, the resolution is that there is a fight, broken up by other kids (kind of) and then the parents take EllRay and the bully to Disneyland together. There is never the message that he should talk to grownups about what is happening, or that grownups can be helpful in such situations. Not every book has to have a moral, but you'd hope not to read young children that have messages you DON"T want to teach them.
11 of 11 people found the following review helpful.
A fighting chance
By E. R. Bird
Quiz time. Place your books under your desks and bring out your #2 pencils. Everyone ready? All right. Reach back into your brain cells and please name for me all the great contemporary early chapter books that you can think of that star male African-American protagonists. Heck, let's make it even more interesting than that. Name me such a book but NOT any of Sharon Draper's Ziggy and the Black Dinosaurs or any of Ann Cameron's Julian books. You have thirty seconds . . . go.
Now if you're anything like me, the above quiz is near impossible. You're either going to try to justify full-length chapter books like The Toothpaste Millionaire as early chapter books (it ain't) or you'll try to bring up books that have historical characters like Eric Kimmel's Louie Armstrong in A Horn for Louis. While we've seen a nice and healthy (if still insufficient) increase in early chapter books starring black girls (Sunny, Dyamonde Daniel, Sassy, Anna Hibiscus, Nikki & Deja, etc.) the boys have been left out in the cold. This is a ridiculous gap in our literary marketplace and it leaves librarians like myself more than a little baffled. I half want to track Christopher Paul Curtis down to his home and scream in his ear, "Why aren't you doing anything about this!?!?" That's hardly fair, though. If publishers were actively seeking out such fare, it would be published. Into this veritable wasteland walks EllRay Jakes. He's not perfect, but he's fun, funny, and a start. And sometimes, that's all it takes.
Ever since Christmas Break things have been tough for EllRay. For the first part of the third grade year he existed below the radar when it came to bullies like Jared Matthews and his sidekick Stanley. Recently, however, EllRay has become the target for the bully's wrath and he has no idea why. Worse still, his dad is unimpressed with EllRay's near heroic (if failed) attempts not to get in trouble at school. So when EllRay's dad says that if EllRay stays out of trouble for a whole week he can go to Disneyland, the challenge is on! Of course, it's hard to stay focused when you're trying the hide the fact that you're being bullied. Harder still when that bully wants you in a fair fight after school for once and for all.
Sally Warner has a way with words. No stranger to the early chapter book series world (her Lily and Emma books come immediately to mind) I was pleased that she stepped a bit out of her comfort zone with EllRay here. She makes sure to give him all the good lines, which is important when you're dealing with a kid as charmingly flawed as he. For example, upon viewing a fellow classmate he says, "Cynthia is the cleanest person I have ever known. She is strangely clean." I love that phrase, "strangely clean." Of course, the setting is strictly suburban. It was interesting to me to note that EllRay's story takes place in a school in Southern California where he's one of the few black kids in his class. He explains at one point that everyone in his class is essentially white, "except for me, Kevin, and two very quiet girls who go to the same church, not mine." There are plenty of kids in the country in similar situations, but of course this means that EllRay's problems are strictly suburban problems. If you're looking for tales set in cities, seek ye elsewhere.
I was impressed with the characters here too. The bad guys are bullies with reasons. Our hero often doth protest too much, and often the reader can see it. And Alfie, EllRay's little sister, could easily have fallen in the too-cute-to-be-believed void of literary little sisters. Instead, her worst flaw is that she has a cute lisp. This, thankfully, is used well. For example, when Alfie announces her intention to meet Minnie Mouse in Disneyland, her parents warn her that Minnie might not be there. " `I'll meet her, all wight,' Alfie says grimly." Four-year-olds who speak grimly are my weakness. I have a hard time not finding them funny.
This book was originally titled EllRay Fights Back then was changed later to the more innocuous sounding EllRay Jakes is Not a Chicken. The switcheroo makes more sense when you get near the end of the book and the unprecedented happens: Our hero decides to fight out his problems with the class bully . . . and then does! I've seen books like this play out the same situation over and over and inevitably the hero never comes to blows. The fact that EllRay does and then solves his problem through far more amicable means later is extraordinary. Undoubtedly there will be concerned adults who read this book and decide that it praises fighting as a way of solving your problems. Not a bit of it. The charm of EllRay is that child readers can see right through him. Early in the book he's told to figure out what Jared's problem is with him. He doesn't, things escalate, and kid readers are left feeling that if he'd just manned up and discussed (or even yelled) the matter over with Jared then everything would have wound up better. As it stands, things seem pretty good anyway. You never see EllRay punished for fighting (another rarity) and yet things wrap up due to some unexpected bonding. It's a realistic ending that doesn't pander to the usual early chapter book conventions. Huh.
EllRay Jakes is Not a Chicken is just the first in a long line of EllRay Jakes books to come. I do think that there's room to expand and grow here as well. My hope, above all, is that EllRay paves the way for other books about other present day African-American boys. Preferably short, funny stories like these that give kids new heroes to grapple with. Writing such books isn't easy, but I've always felt that aside from easy readers, early chapter titles are the hardest and most rewarding books to make for kids. And rewarding isn't a bad word to use in conjunction with EllRay here. Better check him out.
For ages 6-9
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
Brave EllRay
By Madigan McGillicuddy
Eight year-old Lancelot Raymond, better known as EllRay, is eager to prove that despite his small size, he is not a chicken. When he's bullied by some boys at school, rather than alerting his parents or other authority figures, he decides to "take it like a man" and suffer alone.
There were a number of things that I liked about this novel. Lots of interesting details about EllRay and his family made this early middle-grade realistic fiction novel feel very well developed. EllRay likes Mondays and he likes making lists. He doesn't understand girls. His younger sister is named Alfleta, meaning "beautiful elf" in Saxon, but goes by Alfie for short. His geology professor father seems caring but stern. While the adults can't seem to figure out what's going on, they can tell that things aren't quite right. Being promised a trip to Disneyland if he can have an "incident-free" week at school encourages EllRay to keep things under wraps more than ever. My heart broke for this poor kid, who felt such pressure, at such a young age. I liked that this was a "boy" book, featuring a relatively happy African-American family.
Unfortunately, I can't recommend this book wholeheartedly, as I did have some problems with it. While I loved the cover, I was very disappointed by the interior illustrations. In them, EllRay looks bug-eyed and two-dimensional. The ending of the book left much to be desired. As things grow to a head between EllRay and bullies Jared and Stanley, EllRay finally takes matters into his own hands, meeting Jared for a fistfight. This manages to clear the air, but both boys are disappointed when it's revealed that their parents have conspired to send them to Disneyland... where they'll be forced to hang out together. I didn't think a namby-pamby, "And then the boys all learned to be friends! And they lived happily ever after!" sort of ending would have made any sense, but I was saddened that violence seemed to be the answer to EllRay's problems, and that the adults in the story remained clueless throughout. The final third of the book really dragged for me... I kept picking it up, reading a sentence and putting it down again, meaning this short book took me over a month to read. The book is appended with a sneak peek chapter from the next book in the series. For me, this made an already choppy ending feel even choppier, but for kids who liked the book, that sneak peek chapter will provide reassurance that more of EllRay's adventures are on the way. I did enjoy this book. And I'll certainly recommend it to kids looking for good realistic fiction featuring African American families. It doesn't replace the special place that The Stories Julian Tells holds in my heart, though.
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