Jessica’s Blog

In English we have been reading a book called Juggling with Mandarins. The story is about Pip, a 13 year old boy dealing with the problems of teenage life as well as his father. His Dad wants Pip to be a big soccer star like Nick, his brother, and is at every day, cheering and shouting from the sidelines, questioning the Referee’s every decision. Pip is embarrassed, and secretly hates soccer. One day Pip is walking along when he notices that the door has been left open to the new sporting stadium being built. He sneaks inside and begins climbing the rock climbing wall, but gets stuck up the top. Luckily Rob, a climbing instructor, finds him and helps him down. There a friendship begins and Pip goes on to win the climbing championships. 

I think this book deals with the stress of teenage life, as well as problems with the other gender. Most of the book I did enjoy because the storyline flows nicely. The bit I don’t like is when Pip tells Katie he likes her…he should have known it would never work out. I don’t really have a favourite character. I don’t think the ending between Pip and Katie could have been different, because Pip would always act funny around her and Katie would’ve caught on after awhile. The book is called Juggling Mandarins because Pip is juggling problems. 

As the title suggests, this is a blog. My blog, actually. And this particular post is meant to be an introductory post, you know, to get you interested in this blog. Well, there isn’t much here currently but hopefully soon it will be a little more inttresting.

Jess