Double Dutch by Sharon M. Draper
I listened to this book on tape. Delia and Randy are friends in 8th grade and they are both carrying a big secret. Delia is a champion double dutch jumper, but she can’t read. Randy helps out on the team and is one of Delia’s best friends, but his father has disappeared. The question throughout the book is when the kids are going to admit to someone else that they have these problems or if they are going to be exposed by something else that happens.
I really enjoyed this book. In the Recorded Books version, the narrator, Patricia R. Floyd, was wonderful. But most of all, I appreciated the complex characterization of the kids, including the terrible Tolliver twins and lying Yoyo.