Being Jazmine (Invisible Book 3) by Cecily
Anne Paterson
Print Length: 174 pages
Publication Date: July 12, 2017
I am so excited to see this book
come to fruition. In 2014, I gave a friendly challenge to author Cecily
Anne Paterson to not only write a
third book in her series but to include at least one other deaf character with
whom Jazmine could interact. She did her research and I’m impressed with effort
and how it all came together.
Jazmine and her new friends are Deaf
but this is not a book about deafness. With a wonderful garden metaphor that
resonates throughout the series, Being Jazmine offers believable
characters and an unpredictable plot that would be perfect to add to any
reading list. The series tackles teen relationships, mean girls, family
secrets, fitting in, identity, and characters finding themselves.
The characters use Auslan Sign
Language to communicate.
Book description:
Jazmine’s deaf. And she’s
getting tired. Tired of having to try hard, tired of fitting in, tired of
pretending to be like everyone else.
When Jaz goes to deaf camp, a new
world opens up to her. A world where things are easier, and she finally seems
to have a place.
But when you leave one world and
enter another, what happens to the people you leave behind? And why is one of
her new deaf friends suddenly pushed out of the group?
Which world will Jaz live in? Can
she keep a foot in both? How will she figure out the best way to be Jazmine?
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Being Jazmine is the third
book in Cecily Anne Paterson's Invisible series, featuring
easy-to-love, hard-of-hearing teen Jazmine Crawford. The first book in the series,
Invisible, was a semi-finalist in the Amazon Breakthrough Novel
Award in 2014. The second, Invincible, was shortlisted in
the Australian CALEB Prize in 2016.
