Trading Places with Tank Talbott

By Dori Hillestad Butler

Book Overview

Jason, who would rather work on his horror movie screenplay than learn to swim, finds an unlikely ally in Tank, the class bully, who is being forced to take ballroom dance lessons. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807517089
• ISBN13: 9780807517086
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.6" x 8.4"
• Age Range: 9 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 7

Customer Reviews

Trading Places ... is fun!

Trading Places is an exciting book! With respect to the reviewer's 3 star rating, I'd like to express two points. 1.) What might be predictable to an accomplished writer/reviewer is probably not predictable to a teenager. So the teenager finds this story interesting and not predictable. 2.) I think of some people who told me that they didn't see the movie Titantic because they knew the ending. $1 000 000 000 later, I still find that reasoning shallow. When we drill down, most stories are not truly original. We all know that the value of story is in it's development and execution. Trading places has an excellent plot. This book is funny while addressing some serious life issues for children. Ms. Butler's has a special talent of writing books that are both whimsical and important.