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	Key, Watt. DEEP WATER New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018 IL 5-8 ISBN: 978-0374306540 (3 booktalks)
Click on the book to read Amazon reviews	Booktalk #1 Desperate to save his business, Julie’s ailing father agrees to take a father/son team of rich, clients to a deep sea site, but he needs 12-year-old Julie, an experienced diver, to actually take them on the dive. Julie quickly discovers that the clients aren’t interested in doing things the right way, and their recklessness results in the trio being lost at sea. With no boat and little hope, it is up to Julie to fend off tragedy and find a way to survive. (Dorothy Canfield Fisher Book Award 2019 - 2020) Booktalk #2 You’re twelve-years-old and responsible for taking care of a “know-it-all” father and son on a scuba diving expedition. When you surface with your reluctant clients, the boat with your sick father is gone. There’s no one around and you’re hundreds of miles from shore. The sun is beating down, your legs are tiring from treading water, and sharks are circling your group. What will you do to try and survive? (Prepared by:Rebecca Adams, Waccamaw Middle School, radams@gcsd.k12.sc.us) (South Carolina Book Awards, 2020-2021) Booktalk #3 If it doesn’t feel right, don’t go down is what Julie’s Dad has told her ever since she learned to dive. But when they have booked a dive trip for four times the going rate, she is forced to take over for him. What should have been a normal dive turns into a living nightmare for Julie along with Hank & Shane Jordan, their clients. The Jordans, a father and son team of reckless divers, make mistakes on the seafloor that goes from bad to worse. The dive boat has vanished, Hank has bends, and they are lost and drifting toward blue water where large predators lurk. Sharks, jellyfish, hypothermia and exhaustion - and Mother Nature at her worst challenge Julie and Shane to overcome their fears and take on each challenge. Deep Water is a fast-paced action based story with plenty of suspense and dangers. (Sunshine State Young Readers Award Books 2020-2021)
	SUBJECTS: Survival -- Fiction. Scuba diving -- Fiction. Oil well drilling rigs -- Fiction. Adventure and adventurers -- Fiction. Friendship -- Fiction. Family problems -- Fiction. Mexico, Gulf of -- Fiction.

Key, Watt.
DEEP WATER
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018
IL 5-8
ISBN: 978-0374306540

(3 booktalks)

Click on the book to read Amazon reviews

Booktalk #1

Desperate to save his business, Julie’s ailing father agrees to take a father/son team of rich, clients to a deep sea site, but he needs 12-year-old Julie, an experienced diver, to actually take them on the dive. Julie quickly discovers that the clients aren’t interested in doing things the right way, and their recklessness results in the trio being lost at sea. With no boat and little hope, it is up to Julie to fend off tragedy and find a way to survive. (Dorothy Canfield Fisher Book Award 2019 - 2020)

Booktalk #2

You’re twelve-years-old and responsible for taking care of a “know-it-all” father and son on a scuba diving expedition. When you surface with your reluctant clients, the boat with your sick father is gone. There’s no one around and you’re hundreds of miles from shore. The sun is beating down, your legs are tiring from treading water, and sharks are circling your group. What will you do to try and survive? (Prepared by:Rebecca Adams, Waccamaw Middle School, radams@gcsd.k12.sc.us) (South Carolina Book Awards, 2020-2021)

Booktalk #3

If it doesn’t feel right, don’t go down is what Julie’s Dad has told her ever since she learned to dive. But when they have booked a dive trip for four times the going rate, she is forced to take over for him. What should have been a normal dive turns into a living nightmare for Julie along with Hank & Shane Jordan, their clients. The Jordans, a father and son team of reckless divers, make mistakes on the seafloor that goes from bad to worse. The dive boat has vanished, Hank has bends, and they are lost and drifting toward blue water where large predators lurk. Sharks, jellyfish, hypothermia and exhaustion - and Mother Nature at her worst challenge Julie and Shane to overcome their fears and take on each challenge. Deep Water is a fast-paced action based story with plenty of suspense and dangers. (Sunshine State Young Readers Award Books 2020-2021)

SUBJECTS:   Survival -- Fiction.
                        Scuba diving -- Fiction.
                        Oil well drilling rigs -- Fiction.
                        Adventure and adventurers -- Fiction.
                        Friendship -- Fiction.
                        Family problems -- Fiction.
                        Mexico, Gulf of -- Fiction.