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Carter, Ally. NOT IF I SAVE YOU FIRST New York : Scholastic Press, [2019] IL 5-8 ISBN 9781338134155 2 booktalks |
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Booktalk #1 Meet Maddie. Her Secret Service agent dad suddenly moves them to the Alaskan wilderness forcing Maddie to learn survival techniques. She masters jeweled hatchets and the many uses of bobby pins but struggles with the isolation of not hearing from her best friend, the president’s son. When he shows up six years later she is furious, but an unexpected attack forces them into the treacherous wilderness. Her survival skills are their only hope. If she wants to be mad at Logan, she has to save him first. (Prepared by:Tiffany Forrest, Cayce-West Columbia Library, tforrest@lex.lib.sc.us) (South Carolina Book Awards, 2020-2021) Booktalk #2 Maddie did NOT choose to live in remote Alaska with her dad. As a matter of fact, six years ago he was a Secret Service agent and she was best friends with the President’s son, Logan. It’s been six years since she’s heard from Logan but when a helicopter suddenly lands at the cabin guess who steps out? Maddie is confused - should she hug him or kill him? She might not need to decide which to do because if she doesn’t use all her survival skills, the killers chasing them might do it for her. Secrets are exposed, including some her dad has been keeping. Can Maddie and Logan survive one another, the Alaskan weather and terrain, and being hunted by men with very powerful guns? Maybe the real question is, can the bad guys survive Maddie and her bedazzled hatchet? (Pennsylvania Young Reader’s Choice Award 2020-2021) |
| SUBJECTS: Fathers and daughters -- Juvenile fiction. Best friends -- Juvenile fiction. Kidnapping -- Juvenile fiction. Rescues -- Juvenile fiction. Wilderness survival -- Juvenile fiction. Forgiveness -- Juvenile fiction. |
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