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(4) Base Camp
It's tempting to classify Jumped as a sea level novel because of its setting (high school). Sure, the language is pretty easy because it's written as dialogue and internal thoughts, but the moral relativism in the novel as well as the historical and literary references catapult Jumped into Base Camp territory.
The novel explores topics important to teenagers in depth, including the concepts of reputation, snitching, and self-perception, but the reader has to do the bulk of the thinking about these ideas since the narrators are so unreliable. So put your thinking cap on, because the climb to the climax is steady and surprisingly heavy.