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Booktalk
#1
Dad's in jail -- again.
Now don't get him wrong. He's not a bad person. He just acts
impulsively sometimes. He doesn't stop to think about the consequences
when he sees something wrong. Like the time he saw the tourists
beating their dogs. But now he's really in trouble. Now he
has sunk the casino boat! Dad is furious that the owner is emptying
the bilge tanks directly into the water instead of paying to have it hauled
away. He can't prove it so he does the only thing he can think of
-- swamps the boat. So, now he's in jail and no one believes him.
Can his son find a way to prove that the beach is being polluted because
of the casino boat?
Booktalk #2
Act before you think, speak
without a plan – Noah’s Dad has a huge impulse control problem and his
family is suffering from it. What if Dad is right about the illegal dumping
in a recreational area? Who is the strange old man who keeps showing up
just when things are getting dicey? There is a lot going on and you will
need to join Noah and his sister, Abbey, to get to the bottom of it all.
(Jean B. Bellavance for Pennsylvania
Young Reader's Choice Awards, 2006-2007)
Booktalk #3
Okay, so my dad’s not the most
normal dad in the world. So maybe he’s a hero of lost causes. And maybe
he has a temper and doesn’t always think things through. Like the consequences
and how it will affect his family, and like how evidence might be nice
to have. But, he always takes responsibility for what he has done. When
he sank Dusty Muleman’s casino boat because he found out that Dusty had
been having the crew flush the sewage directly into the bay where we all
swim to save money, dad calmly waited on shore in a deck chair for the
police to arrest him. He wanted the publicity. He wanted an investigation
and for Dusty to get his due. That’s when mom started using the d-word,
divorce. And that’s when my sister Abbey and I decided that we’d have to
do something to prove dad was right and Dusty was the scumbag he was. Operation
Royal Flush. Of course we were too young to realize just how much money
talks in politics and government.
(Sam Marsh, Colorado
Blue Spruce Young Adult Book Award Nominees 2009)
Booktalk #4
Noah’s father is spending Father’s
Day in jail for sinking The Coral Queen, a casino boat. When Noah visits
his dad, Paine, he finds out that Paine is certain that the owner, Dusty
Muleman, is dumping sewage into the water and polluting it. Noah’s mom,
Donna, is furious with Paine and won’t bail him out.
Noah believes his dad and hatches
a plan that will sink Muleman once and for all. He gains a some supporters
along the way: Lice Peeking, a disgruntled former employee; Shelly, Lice’s
girlfriend and Dusty’s ex-girl friend, and Abbey, Noah’s little sister
who will bite anyone that will get in her way. Along the way, a mysterious
man who looks like a pirate shows up to defend Noah and Abby from Dusty’s
bully son, Jasper Jr.
Flush is a fun story about
standing up for what’s right, even if that means a little bit of civil
disobedience. It was written by the same author who wrote Hoot that recently
won a Newbery Honor Award. (Melissa Bowman, Melissa.Bowman@pisd.edu,
Armstrong Middle School, Lone Star Book Award nominee, 2006-2007)
Booktalk #5
Welcome to the Coral Queen,
pollution central for the community in which Pain Underwood, his son Noah,
his daughter Abbey and his wife live in. Pain finds himself in a bit of
a jam and his stubborn nature only makes it worst. Pain ends up being lucky
however because his stubborn nature has rubbed off on his kids. Sit back
and enjoy as Noah and Abbey try to help their dad, their parents' relationship,
and the environment. They need to sink not only the Coral Queen but Dusty
Muleman its filthy owner as well. All they need to do is Flush, it's
that simple. (Matt Dikeman, md-dikeman@wiu.edu, college student) |
