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A review by skundrik87
Connect the Stars by Marisa de los Santos, David Teague
4.0
This whole book seems like an insurance rate disaster and a lawsuit waiting to happen. One adult supervising a large number of middle schoolers in the middle of a desert? Leaving them unsupervised, hiking after dark? Not paying attention to food ingredients when you know a child has an anaphylactic allergy and then not even eating with the kids? If this was real life, this guy would be sued so many times...
Book talk for grades 6 and 7: from multiple perspectives. 1) girl with the ability to tell when someone is lying. Has isolated herself as much as possible from everyone so she does not have to put up with their lies. 2) boy who has a photographic memory. Knows facts but has no social skills. Does not know when it is appropriate to talk and is not able to read emotions.
Their parents send them on a wilderness camp adventure in the dessert. They learn to live with themselves.
Themes: friendship, acceptance
Book talk for grades 6 and 7: from multiple perspectives. 1) girl with the ability to tell when someone is lying. Has isolated herself as much as possible from everyone so she does not have to put up with their lies. 2) boy who has a photographic memory. Knows facts but has no social skills. Does not know when it is appropriate to talk and is not able to read emotions.
Their parents send them on a wilderness camp adventure in the dessert. They learn to live with themselves.
Themes: friendship, acceptance