Jumper Book Report

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Preston Campbell 3-6-11 Book Report Jumper Jumper is a 1992 science fiction novel by Steven Gould. The novel was published in mass market paperback in October 1993 and re-released in February 2008 to coincide with the release of the film adaptation. It tells the story of David, a teenager who escapes an abusive household using his ability to teleport. As he tries to make his way in the world, he searches for his mother, who left when he was a child. I the beginning of the book David is having some troubles at school, he gets bullied a lot. Over winter break, David went to New York, and bought a snow globe for a girl that he likes at school (Millie). The first day back from winter break David decides to give it to her, even though she has a boyfriend. When Millie was showing her friends what David had bought her, her boyfriend came up to her and grabbed it out of her hand and threw it on this frozen lake. David got really mad, so he started walking towards the frozen lake to go get the gift he had given Millie. He took about three steps onto the frozen…show more content…
They knew that if David found out that they did that he would come try and save her, so it was all a trap, and they were right. When David found out that they had done that he teleported to her house. There was about 5 or 6 chasers there trying to capture and kill David but someone David got so good at teleporting that he was able to pick up the whole house and get him and Millie out of it and he dropped Brian and all the other chasers on the biggest mountain that he could. David was the best jumper out of all the ones in the whole work. At the end of the story after everything was over, he still had his powers, so he went a searched for his mom for over 2 years. He finally found her and she lived in a huge mansion and already started a new family, and wanted to have nothing to do with David ever

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