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Charbonneau, Joelle. TIME BOMB New York : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018 IL YA ISBN 978-0-544-41670-3 (2 booktalks)
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Booktalk #1 Another school year starts tomorrow. This may be a time when many students are looking forward to the new year. But not all of them. Diana is tired of being the perfect daughter of a politician. Cas knows that this school is no different from the other and she knows this year will not any better. Rashid who is so sick of people looking at him and judging him for being Muslim. Frankie, the star football player who made a mistake this past summer with Tad, who is biracial and gay. Then there is Z, the angry young man who has just lost his mother and everything he had. They each have a plan to change things up in the school today. But only one of them is planning to bomb the school. And now they are trapped together trying to survive. All but one of them. Booktalk #2 The school year hadn’t started yet but 6 students all had reasons to go to school before the first day (a new ID card, yearbook meeting, schedule changes, etc.) Little did they know that this day may be their last. Rashid, Z, Cas, Diana, Frankie and Tad are all stuck in the school when a bomb goes off. The bomber is still inside the school and may be one of the 6. Can these students work together to survive before another bomb goes off or will they turn on each other? Prepared by: Caitlin Creagan, Andrew Jackson High School, caitlin.creagan@lcsd.k12.sc.us (South Carolina Book Awards, 2020-2021) |
| SUBJECTS: Bombings -- Fiction. Emotional problems -- Fiction. Family problems -- Fiction. High schools --Fiction. Schools -- Fiction. |
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