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	Connor, Leslie. ALL RISE FOR THE HONORABLE PERRY T. COOK New York : Katherine Tegen Books. 2016 IL 3-6, RL 4.2 ISBN 978-0-06-233346-9 (3 booktalks)
Click on the book to read Amazon reviews	Booktalk #1 Perry T. Cook is a typical eleven-year-old with a not-so typical life. He lives with his mom Jessica at the Blue River Co-Ed Correctional Facility. When Perry’s best friend’s dad discovers Perry’s living situation, he has Perry placed in foster care. Perry tries his best to adapt to life on the outside but he misses his mom and the rest of his unusual “family”. In an attempt to be reunited with his mom, Perry sets out to discover the details of his mom’s crime which uncovers many truths about his past. Is Perry ready to find out the truth? Will he be able to help his mom make her long awaited parole? And if she is released is Perry ready to live on the outside for good? Perry T. Cook is an enthusiastic, lovable character that no one will forget. GARDEN STATE CHILDREN’S BOOK AWARDS, 2019 Booktalk #2 Engaging story of a middle school boy who has grown up in a minimum security correctional facility where his mom has been incarcerated for over 12 years. Despite the unusual circumstances, he is a happy and well-adjusted child until the new district attorney finds out about the situation and wants to make a public example of the warden and his mom by delaying his mom’s parole hearing and removing Perry for the only “home” he has ever known to live with him in a real “home.” Pennsylvania Young Reader’s Choice Award 2018-2019 Booktalk #3 Perry T. Cook is being raised in a minimum security prison with his mother. When a new district attorney is appointed Perry is forced to live outside for the first time. Perry soon discovers that home is where you are loved, even if it is behind bars. (Connecticut Nutmeg Award https://www.nutmegaward.org/)
	SUBJECTS: Children of prisoners -- Fiction. Detective and mystery fiction. Foster children -- Fiction. Mothers and sons -- Fiction. Nebraska -- Fiction. Prisoners -- Fiction.

Connor, Leslie.
ALL RISE FOR THE HONORABLE PERRY T. COOK
New York : Katherine Tegen Books. 2016
IL 3-6, RL 4.2
ISBN 978-0-06-233346-9

(3 booktalks)

Click on the book to read Amazon reviews

Booktalk #1

Perry T. Cook is a typical eleven-year-old with a not-so typical life. He lives with his mom Jessica at the Blue River Co-Ed Correctional Facility. When Perry’s best friend’s dad discovers Perry’s living situation, he has Perry placed in foster care. Perry tries his best to adapt to life on the outside but he misses his mom and the rest of his unusual “family”. In an attempt to be reunited with his mom, Perry sets out to discover the details of his mom’s crime which uncovers many truths about his past. Is Perry ready to find out the truth? Will he be able to help his mom make her long awaited parole? And if she is released is Perry ready to live on the outside for good? Perry T. Cook is an enthusiastic, lovable character that no one will forget. GARDEN STATE CHILDREN’S BOOK AWARDS, 2019

Booktalk #2

Engaging story of a middle school boy who has grown up in a minimum security correctional facility where his mom has been incarcerated for over 12 years. Despite the unusual circumstances, he is a happy and well-adjusted child until the new district attorney finds out about the situation and wants to make a public example of the warden and his mom by delaying his mom’s parole hearing and removing Perry for the only “home” he has ever known to live with him in a real “home.”
Pennsylvania Young Reader’s Choice Award 2018-2019

Booktalk #3

Perry T. Cook is being raised in a minimum security prison with his mother. When a new district attorney is appointed Perry is forced to live outside for the first time. Perry soon discovers that home is where you are loved, even if it is behind bars. (Connecticut Nutmeg Award https://www.nutmegaward.org/)

SUBJECTS:     Children of prisoners -- Fiction.
                        Detective and mystery fiction.
                        Foster children -- Fiction.
                        Mothers and sons -- Fiction.
                        Nebraska -- Fiction.
                        Prisoners -- Fiction.