Everything you need to understand or teach The Graduation of Jake Moon by Barbara Park.
This novel for young adults is mainly a first person narrative of how a middle school graduate comes to terms with the illness of his much loved grandfather. As Jake Moon struggles with the pressures of having to take care of the man who once took care of him, as well as the resentments that come along with those pressures, the narrative also explores themes relating to the necessity for going...
The Graduation of Jake Moon Lesson Plans contain 118 pages of teaching material, including: