Author & Developmental Editor
Bundle Up
by Jennifer Sattler (Author / Illustrator)
Booktalk: Starting with a pair of yellow mittens, a purple hippo prepares to bundle up to go outside and play in the snow. With humor and visual clues, primary and secondary colors are identified for the toddler set in this board book.
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People Kill People
by Ellen Hopkins (Author)
Booktalk: A gun is sold in the classifieds after killing a spouse, bought by a teenager for needed protection. But which one was it? Each has the incentive to pick up a gun, to fire it. Was it Rand or Cami, married teenagers with a young son? Was it Silas or Ashlyn, members of a white supremacist youth organization? Daniel, who fears retaliation because of his race, who possessively clings to Grace, the love of his life? Or Noelle, who lost everything after a devastating accident, and has sunk quietly into depression?
One tense week brings all six people into close contact in a town wrought with political and personal tensions. Someone will fire. And someone will die. But who?
Snippet:
YOU
Yes, you.
Come here.
Please? I need
to ask you something.
Have you ever felt the desire
to hurt someone?
I mean pummel them,
wound them, watch
them bleed?
Did you?
Would you?
Could you?
If I were the gambling type,
I’d put my money on “yes.”
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