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Booktalk
#1
Steven is gone and spending
the night in his room won't bring him back. But Marty can't help
sneaking up to his home and climbing in . At school, there are looks
of pity on the faces. Marty doesn't want others to see her pain.
She is happy that a new person has bought the movie theater. Now
she has someone to talk to who doesn't know her tragic past. Doesn't
know what happened on that day in the Alaskan bush. Doesn't know
what Marty can't tell. Can Marty ever face what happened and move
on?
Booktalk #2
Marty is starting her senior
year of high school and for the first time is nervous about returning to
school because she knows everyone will remember what happened last summer.
They will stare at her as she sits alone without her boyfriend Steven and
gossip about what they think happened. She will not tell anyone what happened
when she and Steven went into the Alaskan Bush, not her mother, not her
two younger sisters, and not her father when he returns briefly from his
Coast Guard duty. She won’t even tell Katherine, her new friend and owner
the theatre where Marty works. She sneaks into Steven’s room at night after
his family moves away and remembers times they spent together. She shares
stories of him and the whale preservation project with Katherine as they
work at the theatre and fly fish together. She debates leaving Alaska for
college to study Marine Biology, which was Steven’s idea, and decides this
would be a good way to put distance between her and what happened. Then
the Fish and Game Department start an investigation into what happened
that day. Despite her parents’ protests they are adamant about questioning
Marty concerning the details of what happened that day out in the bush.
What did happen that day? Will Marty finally divulge the terrible secret
she has been keeping? To find out, read Upstream by Melissa Lion.
(Prepared By: Michelle Williams for SCASL
Young Adult Awards, 2008) |
