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Save the Crash-test Dummies

Save the Crash-test Dummies
by Jennifer Swanson (Author) and TeMika Grooms (Illustrator)

Booktalk: Cars take us to work. To school. To soccer practice. To the grocery store and home again. Can you imagine a world without them? It’s not easy! One of the reasons we can use cars so much in our everyday lives is because they are safe to drive. But that hasn’t always been the case. If it weren’t for the experiments conducted over decades that involved all kinds of crash test volunteers–dead, alive, animal, or automated–cars as we know them might not be around. And then how would you get to school?

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Charcoal Boys

Charcoal Boys
by Roger Mello (Author / Illustrator) and Daniel Hahn (Translator)

Booktalk: Translated from the Portuguese, this offers a unique perspective on the life of a young boy working in Brazil’s charcoal mines: that of a wasp who follows the boy throughout his day. Through the wasp we observe the hardships the boy faces, from his work at the furnaces to his relationships with the other workers. A condemnation of child labor.

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