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Tweaker:. Life in their bleak city is grim, but keeping her family alive is Katniss’ prime goal. When her weak younger sister is chosen for the Hunger Games, Katniss takes her place despite the knowledge she will almost surely die in the brutal event where teen contestants struggle to survive by killing one another in any
way they can as the entire world watches. way they can as the entire world watches.
Title//Author: The Mailbox by Audrey Shafer Overview: Realistic Fiction/Survival/Tearjerker Gabe’s move from foster care to the rustic home of his Viet Nam vet Uncle Vernon brings two lonely hurt people together. Arriving home on the fi rst day of 6th grade Gabe fi nds Vernon dead in the house. Shocked and uncertain of what to do he tells no one including his mischievous best friend and when he gets home from school the next day the body is gone and a mysterious, but reassuring note is left for him. The note writer gives him a dog which helps with loneliness as, fearing a return to the foster system he continues with school while hiding his situation. Tweaker: (First line) “Vernon Culligan was as good as dead to the town of Drayford Virginia, for so long that when he actually died, not many folks noticed,” Gabe arrives home from the fi rst day of sixth grade to discover his uncle dead on the fl oor. Although his uncle was crusty, distant, physically and emotionally wounded as a result of his service in Vietnam he is family. Gabe keeps the secret of his uncle’s death even when the body disappears and a disquieting note is left in the mailbox.
Title//Author Here Lies Arthur by Philip Reeve Overview: Adventure/Historical Fiction/Arthurian Legend
Tweaker:.Tweaker:. The “lies” in the title twist the legendary tale of King Arthur in cruel and ugly directions. Gwynna’s role in life is to survive her l lifeife as
as a slave, survive the slave, survive the
raiders who plague early Britain and once she is found by Myrddin, to survive her masquerade as the Lady of the Lake who presents a sword to the brutal raider Arthur.
raiders who plague early Britain and once she is found by Myrddin, to survive her masquerade as the Lady of the Lake who presents sword to the brutal raider Arthur.
Unlike the chivalrous Arthur of Legend, this Arthur
twist the legendary tale of King Arthur in cruel and ugly directions. Gwynna’s role in life is to survive her
Tweaker:. grim, but keeping her family alive is Katniss’ prime goal. When her weak younger sister is chosen for the Hunger Games, Katniss takes her place despite the knowledge she will almost surely die in the brutal event where teen contestants struggle to survive by killing one another in any
is manipulative, greedy for power and not to be trusted. As Myrdden says “There’s nothing a man can do that can’t be turned into a tale.... Arthur can do nothing so bad that I can’t spin it into gold and use it to make him more famous and more feared. If the tales are good enough, even the poor man who goes hungry from paying Arthur taxes will love him. I am the story-spinning physician who keeps his reputation in good health.”
Title//Author: Book of a Thousand Days by Shannon Hale Overview: Fantasy/Adventure. Dashti is as tough, plain and feisty as Saren is weepy, lovely and helpless. Dashti’s journal, kept over the space of a thousand days, chronicles the slowly developing relationship between the servant and mistress. Dashti, an orphaned nomad sees seven years of food as the most incredible sight of her life, but after years of imprisonment longs for the sky, and ultimately must face death as she tries to keep faith with honor and love. Tweaker: What is the worst punishment you can imagine for disobeying your parents? Saren’s father has developed a unique way of trying to make his daughter obey him. She is to be locked in a windowless tower for seven years unless she agrees to marry the wealthy, cruel lord her father has chosen for her. When Dashti, desperate for a job, takes a position as a lady’s maid to Saren she fi nds herself feeling sorry for Saren and agrees to be locked in the tower to take care of her. The girls are bricked inside the tower with supplies of food intended to last seven years, but a horde of hungry rats, the evil suitor and Saren’s true love’s attempts to coax or force the girls out are thwarted because of a dark secret Saren is too terrifi ed to share.
Title/Author: Remembering Raquel by Vivian Vande Velde Excerpt: It’s amazing how much dying can do for a girl’s popularity. When the author was asked why she wrote this book her response was:
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