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This is a booktalk I did for a library school class assignment. I’ve included the transcript:
“Who are we? Where do we live? What can we do? What makes us human?”
These questions, and more, are raised in the book Greetings from Planet Earth by award winning author, Barbara Kerley. In 1977, the Voyager 2 probe, carrying [...]

Bibliography:
Myracle, Lauren. September 2008. Bliss. New York: Harry Abrams. ISBN: 9780810970717
Plot Summary:
Bliss Inthemorningdew’s hippie parents have taken her off the commune and dropped her at her ever-so proper grandmother’s house on their way to Canada to protest the war in Vietnam. She hates to admit it, but television and warm showers and real soap are [...]

Bibliography:
Connor, Leslie. 2008. Waiting for Normal. New York: HarperCollins. ISBN: 9780060890889
Plot Summary:
Addie and her mommers are moving into a tiny trailer in the middle of Schnectady, New York. It isn’t much to look at and it isn’t home.  Home is where Addie’s half sisters live with her ex-stepfather Dwight.  Home isn’t where her mother can [...]

I don’t remember when I first picked up one of her books.  I imagine it was a long hot summer day when I was in upper elementary or intermediate school. Maybe I was 10?   My mom had been a teacher, and also a collector of books by Southern writers, and so she had a [...]