 |
Nancy Keane's | Booktalks -- Quick and Simple | |
|
|||||||
 |
Lord, Cynthia. BECAUSE OF THE RABBIT New York : Scholastic Press, 2019 IL 3-6 ISBN 9780545914246 3 booktalks |
|
|
Booktalk #1 Living in Maine and having a Game Warden for a father opens up all kinds of possibilities for a daughter who cares about helping wild animals survive. When home schooled 5th grader Emma decides to finally take the step to enroll in public school, she’s feeling anxious, especially on the eve before the first day. All at once the phone rings, the caller informs her dad that a rabbit is trapped in the caller’s fence. Emma begs to accompany him on the rescue. Before long, they save a small honey colored pet rabbit with a brown nose. What happens to the rabbit, will Emma get to keep it, or does it belong to someone else? Emma starts school the following day, all she really wants is to find a best friend. The only child left to befriend in 5th grade, is an awkward boy named Jack, who is very kind to her, but excessively shares facts. How will she ever fit in to this school? (Pennsylvania Young Reader’s Choice Award 2020-2021) Booktalk #2 Emma has been homeschooled and will now start public school in the fifth grade. Her father is a game ranger, and they have recently rescued what they thought was a wild rabbit but turned out to be someone’s missing pet. More than anything, Emma wants a best friend. She learns about what it takes to be a true friend to someone, and they will be your friend, too. (Oklahoma Sequoyah Book Awards, 2021) Booktalk #3 On the last night of summer, Emma and her father rescue a small rabbit stuck in a fence. The next day Emma starts fifth grade after years of being home schooled, excited and apprehensive about making new friends, she is paired with Jack, a hyperactive boy, who does not seem to fit in with anyone. Emma must decide what’s important; friendship or popularity. Realistic Fiction. (Rhode Island Children's Book Award 2021) |
| SUBJECTS: Rabbits -- Fiction Schools -- Fiction Home schooling -- Fiction Interpersonal relations -- Fiction Friendship -- Fiction Family life -- Maine -- Fiction Maine -- Fiction |
|
|
Except
where otherwise noted, content on this site is 