Category: fiction

The Quacken
by Justin Colón (Author) and Pablo Pino (Illustrator)
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Booktalk: Lurking in the lake at Cucumonga Campground is a fearsome and frightening creature. Legend says that it swallows kids, canoes, and even whales whole. But all Hector sees are cute, cuddly, quacking ducks. Until he breaks the campground’s most important rule–Don’t Feed the Ducks–and releases the Quacken.

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The author, Justin Colón, is one of my former students.
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Dalmartian: A Mars Rover’s Story
by Lucy Ruth Cummins (Author / Illustrator)
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Booktalk: A visitor from outer space comes to Stephen’s yard one night. It may look like a Dalmatian, but it certainly doesn’t act like one. At first, Stephen and the visitor get off on the wrong paw. They quibble over kibble, debate sleeping arrangements, and must abandon earth dogs’ approach to bathroom breaks altogether to keep the peace. Is a shared love of bacon a strong enough foundation for this ordinary earth boy and extraordinary out-of-this-world canine to learn to live in harmony?

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