--- product_id: 16290651 title: "Jumpstart the World Paperback – November 8, 2011" brand: "catherine ryan hyde" price: "NT$573" currency: TWD in_stock: true reviews_count: 11 url: https://www.desertcart.tw/products/16290651-jumpstart-the-world-paperback-november-8-2011 store_origin: TW region: Taiwan --- # Jumpstart the World Paperback – November 8, 2011 **Brand:** catherine ryan hyde **Price:** NT$573 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Jumpstart the World Paperback – November 8, 2011 by catherine ryan hyde - **How much does it cost?** NT$573 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.tw](https://www.desertcart.tw/products/16290651-jumpstart-the-world-paperback-november-8-2011) ## Best For - catherine ryan hyde enthusiasts ## Why This Product - Trusted catherine ryan hyde brand quality - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Full description not available ## Images ![Jumpstart the World Paperback – November 8, 2011 - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51uGuyZfDaL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Jumpstart the World, a sweet story full of beautiful characters, images and moments. *by S***G on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 12, 2011* Jumpstart the World, a YA novel by Catherine Ryan Hyde, is a sweet story full of beautiful characters, images and moments: Toto's one eye, Don Quixote swinging his broom at Manhattan traffic, the Bobs' smiles at a party, shy yet confident Wilbur, the camera, Frank's broken eye glasses, Elle captures the cab. The story of Elle's personal growth from a negative, defensive 16 year old girl who is living alone in her own apartment in Manhattan to a positive, creative, compassionate adult weaves the moments, characters, and images, together tightly. We feel better to have read it. This is one set of reasons why.In fiction, as in real life, it is hard to show people that you've changed.Hyde takes this problem of personal growth head on when she chooses to let Elle narrate her own story. Jumpstart The World has no 3rd person, omniscient narrator to set the story, to fill in the background, to tell us things that we and that Elle might not otherwise know.As the narrator, Elle is elegant in choosing which people, interactions, and events to describe. Like a puzzle, the people and events fit together tightly. Unlike an ordinary puzzle, people and events change Elle within the story. If puzzles were both static and dynamic, then the picture Elle presents to the reader is that kind of static to changing puzzle.As the narrator, Elle's style is quick, funny, insightful, yet sometimes awkward, often embarrassed, and sometimes confused. Often she doesn't know what she is about to say; sometimes she over-emphasizes the obvious. While Elle changes as a character in her story, her narrative style does not change. Narrative styles change for different reason and through different experiences: reading, perceived audience, formal and informal training. No reason for the style to change. The story is about Elle the girl not Elle the author.Mother. Elle begins her story sputtering to and about her mother. Elle rescues a one eyed cat because her mother suggests that she get another cat. Elle names the cat Toto, ironically echoing, that other Toto in that other story where the other audience understands 'there is no place like home'. Elle actually cuts off her nose (here, her hair) to spite her (mother's) face. By the middle of her story, Elle shows she has grown when, instead of cutting up the clothes her mother bought for her birthday, she returns them and buys a camera and camera equipment with the money. Through the story she learns how to use the camera, which shows her the intensity in her own eyes, and eventually decides that this is how she will jump-start the world: she will use a camera to show the world the injustices that she sees, and has seen in the story. By the end of the story, we see that she has also gained a degree of compassion for mother.Crazy Harry. As Don Quixote duels with windmills, crazy Harry duels with cars and people on the street in front of Elle's apartment. Several pages in the story after we first see Harry, Frank uses the word 'quixotic' in a scrabble game, and has to tell Elle the story of Don Quixote. Unfortunately for Frank, Harry's broom draws real blood later in the story. By the story's end, Elle learns more than to forgive Harry. She takes pictures of Harry, trying to find that perfect image that will show to the world, the hell she sees in Harry's eyes. The puzzle pieces fit together and yet the picture of Elle changes.Frank. Elle is immediately attracted to Frank. But Elle's crush soon implodes when she is told at her party with her new friends, by her new friends that Frank is transgender.At first she doesn't want to talk to Frank or see her new friends ever again. But as the story develops and because Frank works in a vet's office, when Toto needs to go to the vet, Elle is forced to ask Frank for help. And when, after the accident, Frank has to go to the hospital, Elle fights for and captures a cab to take Frank to the hospital. She hopes the cab capture will assuage the hurt she had caused Frank, and yet she knows that it never can. Elle stays in the hospital with Frank, because she 'has his back'; and, through the night, she is finally able to say that she loves him: she has forgiven herself for her earlier reactions; she understands some of the injustice Frank suffers.By the end of this sensitive story, after Elle has used the camera to capture Wilbur's confidence, Frank and Molly's love for each other, the hell in Harry's eyes, we see a positive, even joyful young adult who has made it her life's work to Jump-start the World. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Such a head turner! *by B***A on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 6, 2023* I just love to read this story and here I am thinking what if? What would have I done ?Just speechless and happy I got to read this book. Enjoy ! ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Such a good, heartfelt read *by F***R on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 22, 2023* I liked it all. What a strong girl she was...for her to adopt a cat with his battle scars so like her own.I really enjoy this author and the way she can bring out the souls of her subjects. --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.tw/products/16290651-jumpstart-the-world-paperback-november-8-2011](https://www.desertcart.tw/products/16290651-jumpstart-the-world-paperback-november-8-2011) --- *Product available on Desertcart Taiwan* *Store origin: TW* *Last updated: 2026-09-16*