# Jumping the Nail

**Author:** Eve Bunting
**Grade range:** Grades 9–12
**Age range:** 14–17
**First published:** 1991
**Page count:** 172
**Genre:** Realistic Fiction
**ISBN-13:** `9780152413576`
**ISBN-10:** `015241357X`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/jumping-the-nail
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

Summary:When a group of teenagers in a coastal California community challenge each other to "Jump the Nail" - leap from dangerous cliffs into the ocean-group pressure and manipulative relationships quickly drive the game out of control.

## Themes

- peer pressure
- california, fiction
- peer pressure, fiction
- adolescence, fiction

## Where this book is assigned

### Virginia Readers' Choice

- **recommended** · 9th grade · Virginia — [source: Virginia Readers' Choice past winners, 1994-1995 winner (High)](https://vslatoday.org/VRC-past-titles)
- **recommended** · 10th grade · Virginia — [source: Virginia Readers' Choice past winners, 1994-1995 winner (High)](https://vslatoday.org/VRC-past-titles)
- **recommended** · 11th grade · Virginia — [source: Virginia Readers' Choice past winners, 1994-1995 winner (High)](https://vslatoday.org/VRC-past-titles)
- **recommended** · 12th grade · Virginia — [source: Virginia Readers' Choice past winners, 1994-1995 winner (High)](https://vslatoday.org/VRC-past-titles)

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