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	Burt , Jake. GREETINGS FROM WITNESS PROTECTION! New York : Square Fish, 2018 IL 5-8 ISBN 9781250179043 (4 booktalks)
Click on the book to read Amazon reviews	Booktalk #1 Nicki thinks she is being handed the chance of a lifetime. After years in foster care, she’s offered the chance to join a family, but it turns out that this family is on the run from one of the most notorious crime families. Nicki is going to have to use all her skills to help her family survive being discovered and help the new friends she makes along the way! (Pennsylvania Young Reader’s Choice Award 2019-2020) Booktalk #2 Nicki’s father is in jail and her grandmother is dead so she’s in the foster care system. One day two US Marshalls show up and offer her “the adventure of a lifetime.” They need her to help hide a family in witness protection from a very dangerous criminal. Since the criminals are looking for a family of 3, adding a daughter- ter to the family will make it easier to keep them hidden. Adding a street-smart, savvy, kleptomaniac like Nicki may help to keep them alive - unless her past puts them all in danger! (Sunshine State Young Readers Award Books 2019-2020) Booktalk #3 If given the choice, would you give up everything and take on a new identity? When a US marshal approaches Nicki about using her streetwise skills to help a family in witness protection, she chooses to accept the offer. Her goal is to keep her new family safe, but she isn’t prepared for the onslaught of a new school, sibling rivalry, hitmen, and, most surprisingly, her past. If you are looking for a good laugh along with edge-of-your-seat action, this book is for you. (Prepared by: Tiffany Forrest, tiffanylforrest@gmail.com for South Carolina Book Award) Booktalk #4 An expert pickpocket and orphan in foster care, Nicki Demere is placed with a family hiding in Witness Protection where she must learn to fit in as a daughter and sister while protecting her new family. (Connecticut Nutmeg Award https://www.nutmegaward.org/)
	SUBJECTS: Witnesses -- Protection. Orphans -- Fiction.

Burt , Jake.
GREETINGS FROM WITNESS PROTECTION!
New York : Square Fish, 2018
IL 5-8
ISBN 9781250179043

(4 booktalks)

Click on the book to read Amazon reviews

Booktalk #1

Nicki thinks she is being handed the chance of a lifetime. After years in foster care, she’s offered the chance to join a family, but it turns out that this family is on the run from one of the most notorious crime families. Nicki is going to have to use all her skills to help her family survive being discovered and help the new friends she makes along the way! (Pennsylvania Young Reader’s Choice Award 2019-2020)

Booktalk #2

Nicki’s father is in jail and her grandmother is dead so she’s in the foster care system. One day two US Marshalls show up and offer her “the adventure of a lifetime.” They need her to help hide a family in witness protection from a very dangerous criminal. Since the criminals are looking for a family of 3, adding a daughter- ter to the family will make it easier to keep them hidden. Adding a street-smart, savvy, kleptomaniac like Nicki may help to keep them alive - unless her past puts them all in danger! (Sunshine State Young Readers Award Books 2019-2020)

Booktalk #3

If given the choice, would you give up everything and take on a new identity? When a US marshal approaches Nicki about using her streetwise skills to help a family in witness protection, she chooses to accept the offer. Her goal is to keep her new family safe, but she isn’t prepared for the onslaught of a new school, sibling rivalry, hitmen, and, most surprisingly, her past. If you are looking for a good laugh along with edge-of-your-seat action, this book is for you. (Prepared by: Tiffany Forrest, tiffanylforrest@gmail.com for South Carolina Book Award)

Booktalk #4

An expert pickpocket and orphan in foster care, Nicki Demere is placed with a family hiding in Witness Protection where she must learn to fit in as a daughter and sister while protecting her new family. (Connecticut Nutmeg Award https://www.nutmegaward.org/)

SUBJECTS: Witnesses -- Protection.
Orphans -- Fiction.