Jumper

· HarperCollins UK
4.4
109 reviews
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Written in the 1990s by American author Steven Gould, Jumper tells the story of Davy Rice as he escapes his tortured childhood to explore the world via teleportation and find his long lost mother.

At seventeen the world is at your feet... especially if you can teleport.

David Rice barely remembers his mother. She left his alcoholic father when Davy was very young. She left Davy too, and since then all of William Rice’s abusive anger has been focused on his young teenage son.

One evening, as he is about to receive another brutal beating, Davy shuts his eyes and wishes to be safe. When he opens them again, he finds himself in his small town’s library. Slowly, he realises he is very special, he can teleport.

Armed with his new power, Davy sets out with new purpose: he will leave his abusive home and find his long lost mother. Davy’s confidence grows as his skills do, but they also draw unwanted attention and soon Davy finds that he too is hunted.

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4.4
109 reviews
tiffany hansford
March 24, 2013
Hey I don't know about you guys but I can only read up to chaper 3 it won't go further. When I turn the page its blank has any of you guys got that? But other than that, I've watched the film and its great but the book is different? But the cover is cool :-) and also this free sample is not the showing me the right one because everyone is saying about the real copy and the one I've got doesn't tell me that david rice teleports to different places or anything like that. It only tells me about when he was little and this is nothin like the film
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Daniel Commins
July 16, 2023
great book, but ffs! the punctuation needs to be fixed; at times, one has to think like an illiterate to make any sense of the dialogue.
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Wayne Waite
December 29, 2014
Nothing like the film ! Absolutely cracking read, a real page turner. They should have stayed true to the book when they made the film. Will definitely recommend this book you've got to read it.
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About the author

Steven Gould is the author of Jumper, Wildside, Helm, Blind Waves, Reflex, and Jumper: Griffin’s Story, as well as several short stories. He is the recipient of the Hal Clement Young Adult Award for Science Fiction and has been on the Hugo ballot twice and the Nebula ballot once for his short fiction. Steve lives in New Mexico with his wife, writer Laura J. Mixon and their two daughters. As he is somewhere between Birth and Death, he considers himself to be middle-aged.

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