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Caletti, Deb. (2 booktalks) |
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Booktalk #1 When Annabelle experiences an extreme trauma, the only time she can cope is when she runs. Accompanied by her Grandpa Ed in a lumbering RV, Annabelle sets out to run across the country. While her younger brother and friends promote her running on social media, all Annabelle wants to do is shut out the world and process what happened to her. The closer she gets to her running goal, the more she realizes she must face her trauma and the emotions she has locked away, and people are waiting to hear what she has to say. (Oklahoma Sequoyah Book Awards, 2020) Booktalk #2 Have things ever become so overwhelming you longed to just escape? High school senior, Annabelle Agnelli does just that after a leer in a Seattle parking lot. She drops her Dick’s Drive-In bag and runs-- for 11 miles and then keeps running all the way to Washington, DC. Why is she running? What is she running from? Mile–by-mile though flashbacks and reflections, her impromptu journey becomes an intriguing search for a life beyond tragedy. Annabelle’s estranged dad and precocious 12-year-old brother rally a support team that ignites #gun violence and #metoo communities well beyond her. This compelling mystery embraces the axiom that sometimes the only way out is through. (Book Talk by Nancy Federiuk, Pacific Middle School ) (Washington Evergreen Book Award nominee 2021)
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| SUBJECTS: Grief -- Fiction. Running -- Fiction. Post-traumatic stress disorder -- Fiction. Social action -- Fiction. Massacre survivors -- Fiction. School shootings -- Fiction. |
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