Reviewed By: Jessica P.
Publisher: Charlesbridge Teen
Recommended Age: Young Adult
Genre: Contemporary
WHUFFO: Someone who hasn't made a skydive (yet), especially a spectator. Supposedly derived from "What for do you jump out of a perfectly good airplane?"
Sixteen-year-old Clancy is no stranger to extreme sports. Her father runs a skydiving dropzone, but after her mother dies in a freak accident, her father grounds her--permanently. Clancy is resigned to being a whuffo and packing parachutes for her dad's latest girlfriend until cute college freshman Denny starts taking classes at the drop zone. Denny assumes Clancy is eighteen, an innocent mistake that gives her a rush--and that she doesn't correct.
But the lies snowball, relationships are damaged, and suddenly Clancy isn't the person she wants to be. She wants to make things right . . . but it seems the more Clancy imagines the life of a skydiver, the more she imagines she can escape her dull reality of life outside the drop zone. Will Clancy make the jump?
About the Author: Tracy Barrett has written more than twenty books for children and young adults. She’s much too interested in too many things to stick to one genre, and has published nonfiction as well as historical fiction, mysteries, fantasy, time travel, myth and fairy-tale retellings, and contemporary realistic novels. She knows more about ancient Greece and Rome and the European Middle Ages than anyone really needs to know, can read lots of dead languages, and used to jump out of airplanes.A grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to study medieval women writers led to the writing of her first novel, the award-winning Anna of Byzantium (Delacorte). Her most recent publications are a contemporary YA novel, Freefall Summer, which draws on her own skydiving adventures; a middle-grade fantasy entitled Marabel and the Book of Fate; The Song of Orpheus: The Greatest Greek Myths You Never Heard, a collection of little-known Greek myths; and the popular middle-grade series The Sherlock Files.
From 1999 to 2009 Tracy Barrett was the Regional Advisor for the Midsouth (Tennessee and Kentucky) with the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators. She is now SCBWI's Regional Advisor Coordinator.
Tracy grew up near New York City, and went to college in New England and graduate school in California. She holds a Bachelor's Degree with honors in Classics-Archaeology from Brown University and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Medieval Italian Literature from the University of California, Berkeley. She was awarded a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to study medieval women writers and won the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators Work-in-Progress Grant in 2005. She taught Italian and other subjects at Vanderbilt University for almost thirty years. She has two grown children and lives in Tennessee with her husband and two Cavalier King Charles Spaniels.
PHOTO CREDIT: JENNY MANDEVILLE/VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY
TWITTER: @writingtracy
GOODREADS: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/107072.Tracy_Barrett
FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/TracyBarrettAuthor/
INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/tracywriter/
Noteworthy experiences while reading this book: If you wanted to learn about Skydiving in story form this is the book you should be reading! I found this a very exciting and interesting premise.
Do I Recommend this book? If you don't want to learn about skydiving this one may not be for you. A lot of the book talks about it.
This was a very quick read with very nice pacing. I think the author did a wonderful job with all of the terminologies with the skydiving as well as with each of the characters. I loved meeting all of the people in the group as well as Clancy. Although with Clancy wanting freedom from her dad I think she went about it in a horrible way. Especially if things would have gone horribly wrong.
This story is one on the lighter side of things and I think would be a great read since school is just now starting for a lot of kids. This is one that you could speed through or take your time with.
This book also had a great story for those who are getting ready to graduate that you are in charge of your life. Your almost an adult and well your parents won't be there forever to tell you what to do. You need to start thinking on your own and take charge and owning up to your mistakes and learning to deal with bad and good choices no matter how they end up.
Go Into This One Knowing: Growing Up, Over Protective Parents, Skydiving
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