Books with title Jakes the Name : Sixth Grades the Game

Best friends Jeff and Wiley are nickname addicts. It's only when a spunky red-haired environmentalist named Cassandra enters their lives that they begin to doubt their nicknaming prowess. No name seems to say it all. On top of everything, some of the nicknames that Jeff and Wiley have invented are backfiring on them. Will the nicknamers be able to get it together before it's too late?

Here is a humorous, first-person account by a deaf boy mainstreamed into the sixth grade of a public school. He speaks of what it is like for him and of his perceptions of others' reactions to him. Jake is a typical adolescent boy with opinions about everything, coping with the changes of growing up, trying to understand his parents who are tuned into adolescence, and trying to figure out his buddies who are now acting flat out weird around girls. He is also a scamp at heart, and his antics will make the reader laugh outloud. Entertain and informative, Jake will be particularly dear to mainstream receiving teachers, professionals in the deaf and hard of hearing field, interpreters, adolescents schooled in mainstreamed classes, and their parents.

Best friends Jeff and Wiley are nickname addicts. It's only when a spunky red-haired environmentalist named Cassandra enters their lives that they begin to doubt their nicknaming prowess. No name seems to say it all. On top of everything, some of the nicknames that Jeff and Wiley have invented are backfiring on them. Will the nicknamers be able to get it together before it's too late?