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Nancy Keane's | Booktalks -- Quick and Simple | |
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Charbonneau, Joelle.
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Booktalk #1 Not everyone knows the difference between a need and a want. NEED, is a new social media network in Nottawa, Wisconsin and everyone Kaylee knows is on it. Kaylee needs only one thing, a kidney for her younger brother D. J. Need will grant people's wishes for a price and soon everyone is signing up for the website and doing things they never thought they would do. As the body count starts rising, Kaylee knows someone must track NEED down and stop them before it destroys them all. (Eliot Rosewater Indiana High School Book Award, Rosie Award, 2018) Booktalk #2 Do you know the difference between a "want" and a "need"? A "want" is a desire to possess or do something. A wish. A "need" is something required because it is essential. Something very important that you cannot live without. When the students of a small school in Wisconsin are invited to join a new social media site, the question is "What do you need?" Some students ask for new phones or new exercise equipment or good grades. The site, NEED, grants the requests with a demand that the students invite others at the school to join the network. Easy enough. When Kaylee joins, she asks for a new kidney for her brother who will die without one. NEED tells her it will be granted. She isn't required to invite any students. But once all the students are members, NEED requests the students perform certain tasks in order to be granted their need . They seem like pranks. Putting a box on a door step or delivering notes to people. But are these harmless pranks what they seem to be? Just who is behind NEED? And why is it limited to students of Nottawa High School? |
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media -- Fiction. Thrillers (Fiction). |
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