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Marshall, Katie Alice. I AM STILL ALIVE New York : Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, [2018] IL YA ISBN 9780425290989 (2 booktalks)
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Booktalk #1 "I'm alone. I don't have much food. The temperature is dropping. No one is coming for me." Before the fire, Jess is shipped to Alaska to live with a father she barely knows after her mother's death. As they start to get to know each other, a secret past visits her dad, leaving him murdered and their house burned to the ground. With just her dad's dog, Jess must now brave the wilderness by herself: find food, build shelter, and hope someone will eventually find her. After all, she was the only witness to her father's murder. With a survivalist tone, readers will root for Jess and her dog Bo every step of the way. Can Jess and Bo find enough supplies to make it just one more day? (Georgia Peach Book Award, 2020) Booktalk #2 Jess Cooper is strong, funny, quick on her feet, terrified, and all alone in the Canadian wilderness. Actually, she has Boomer, her recently inherited dog to protect her. She faces danger from a lack of shelter, water and food, but the greatest danger she faces is from the men who killed her father. He took something they want and they’re coming back to get it. Can Jess stay alive long enough to survive living in the woods, or will the men who killed her father come back for her? Read I Am Still Alive to find out who wins: nature, murderers, or Jess. (Prepared by: Dana Anderson, Cario Middle, Dana_anderson@charleston.k12.sc.us ) (South Carolina Book Awards, 2020-2021) |
| SUBJECTS: Survival -- Fiction. Revenge -- Fiction. Fathers and daughters -- Fiction. Wilderness areas -- Fiction. |
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