Middle-Grade Review: Marshmallow and Jordan

Heard Great Things About Alina Chaw Middle Class Marshmallow Jordan Graphic Novel I finally got a chance to read it for myself. I loved this touching and enduring story of a young disabled girl who faces challenges and finds an impossible partner to support her.

Jordan was the captain and star of the Indonesia national basketball team. Then the accident led to him being put in a wheelchair. He seems amazingly consistent, his talented teammates always support him when behind training and playing, sometimes helping the coach during training or he can play from his chair. But Jordan cannot be an integral part of the team and the competition. One day, on his way home from school, he saw a wounded white elephant cub. I think elephants are popular in Indonesia because Jordan is not surprised, but helps the baby elephant back home so that its mother, a veterinarian, can help the injured animal. His parents agreed to let an elephant named Jordan Marshmallow stay with them until he regained his health. To recover his kindness, Marshmallow mysteriously builds a backyard pool one night, helping Jordan learn to swim the next day without using his feet. Jordan loves the newfound freedom of walking around the pool. After a great day of water basketball with his friends in the pool, Jordan joined the water polo team. As he's playing a brand new game, his teammates aren't very hospitable at first, fearing it could ruin his chances of reaching the final this year. Jordan seems to be falling behind his old and new teammates, but he trains hard every day after school, adding extra hours to himself, until his strength, stamina, and aquatic skills improve. At the end of the school year, the crisis resolves itself in a very surprising way.

For example, Jordan with his basketball team

For example, Jordan brings home Marshmallow candy

This person has a chronic disease, there were two young men who had the same disease at a very young age (one of them is being treated now) - I can say with confidence that having a disabled child is very rare. In a book for children and adolescents. A disabled child is less common for a gifted athlete. But this wonderful book is more than just a Jordanian flaw. It's all about the company, the family, and overcoming all kinds of challenges. I like that the challenges Jordan faces here have to do with his “disability, he can no longer play his favorite game,” and the completely “normal” kinds of challenges all the kids in the company face, accepting and trying something new. Learning Skills. There is a story in the story to make it more fun. Beautiful, colorful watercolor illustrations help tell the story - they literally paint a complete picture of Indonesia's daily life (add some additions to the section). Picture together և Text / Dialogue that tells the magical story of an ordinary girl from a different culture, familiar to most readers, with challenges that all children can identify with.

365 pages, first second

This book faces the following 2022 reading challenges :

TBR Mountain Challenge:

Diversity Challenges

Travel the world with books - Indonesia

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