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Booktalk
#1
Last summer Jason had a scary
experience when he almost drowned. You can understand why Jason is
not at all interested in learning to swim. In fact, he’s scared to
put his face in the water. But his mom says he has to learn to swim
and he will take lessons until he passes his swimming test. Then
horror of all horrors he runs into Tank at the Y.
Read page 16 19 (top
of page)
What do you think will happen
if Tank and Jason trade places? Will it work? To find out read
Trading Places with Tank Talbott by Dori Hillestad Butler.
(Beth Lindsay, Lee County Library System, Estero, FL) 2005-2006 Sunshine
State Young Reader’s List Grades 3-5
Booktalk #2
Oh man! I
do not know how I got myself into this mess.Okay.
Okay.I do know.It all started
last summer when I fell out of my grandpa’s boat without my life jacket
on and nearly drowned.So now my mom is insisting
I learn how to swim, and to prove to her I can I have to graduate from
the tadpole swimming class. Me.I’m
11 years old in a class full of 5 and 6 year olds for pete’s sake, and
I’ve already failed the test twice. I have no desire to swim or even go
near water again.Swimming is my sister Dagmar’s thing.
She wins ribbons and trophies all the time. I’m happy just working on the
script for my horror movie, Dagmartian. But if I ever want to be able to
take a writing or acting class again I have to pass.Anyway,
here is where the mess really becomes messy.You know
Tank Talbott right? He’s only interested in finding out who he can beat
up next. He broke my best friend Luke’s nose last year. Kind of looks like
me?Yeah, him.Well his sister
is getting married soon and he is supposed to be learning how to ballroom
dance for the wedding reception.His dance class is
at the same rec center where my swimming class meets. We were mistaken
for each other a couple of times…and you see where this is leading right?I
now know how to waltz and he always knew how to swim.Our
final tests should be a breeze but wouldn’t you know it…our parents have
decided to attend our final classes.If I can’t figure
out how to waltz underwater, I will be the only like 80year
old ever, to still be in the tadpoles.Read Trading
Places with Tank Talbott by Dori Hillestad Butler to find out if I
get out of this one. Oklahoma
Sequoyah Children’s Book Award nominee, 2005-2006 |
