martedì 17 marzo 2020

[English Spotlight] "Don't Check Out This Book!" by Kate Klise

Dopo la recensione di ieri di un libro italiano - Loki - Il giovane Dio dell'inganno di Mackenzi Lee - è il momento di tornare alla lingua inglese perché oggi è il mio turno in occasione del blogtour di mostrarvi una graphic novel carinissima che ho letto tutta d'un fiato e la cui recensione andrà online venerdì. 


First of all, thanks to Kristen from Algonquin Books for sending me an eARC - I'm thankful for being a part of this blogtour.
Today I'm gonna introduce you to the book, but you can already read my English review on Goodreads and NetGalley.
So, without further ado, let's begin!
 


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Get to the Bottom of Appleton's Juiciest Scandal.


In Don’t Check Out This Book!, Appleton Elementary School has a new librarian, Rita B. Danjerous. Not everyone in Appleton likes her unconventional methods or her infamous Green Dot Collection, which allows students to borrow books discreetly, without actually checking them out. Under Rita’s influence, students like Reid Durr and Ben Thinken, and even the absent-minded principal, Noah Memree, are staying up way too late reading. While Rita inspires the students and faculty alike, the new school board president and impeccably mannered shop owner Ivana Beprawpa is busy working to shut down the library and force students into uniforms available only at Beprawpa Attire. But what’s behind Ivana’s school uniform policy? A team of fifth-grade sleuths is determined to get to the bottom of Appleton’s juiciest scandal ever.


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Author Kate Klise’s books are “fresh, funny, and a delight to read” (School Library Journal). Here she uses her skill and wit to introduce kids to serious topics, such as censorship and abuse of power. “I was really motivated to cook up a book-banning character who could embody all the pettiness and corruption we see in the world today,” Klise says. “I also wanted to create some book-loving characters who could prevail in the end.”

Beneath Appleton’s mystery, there is a pure, unabashed celebration of words, and the rights of all readers to choose their own books. Hilarious, empowering, and exciting, Don’t Check Out This Book! is filled with clever winks to the audience, as if to say “You’re a reader. You get it.” And by the end, we do.



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Kate Klise is the award-winning author of more than 30 books for young readers, many of which are illustrated by her sister, M. Sarah Klise. On her way to becoming an author, Kate Klise worked as a babysitter, waitress, ice-skating instructor, and rosebush pruner. She was also a journalist and spent 15 years reporting for People magazine. When she’s not working on a new book, she enjoys traveling around the country, sharing her best writing tips and tricks with aspiring authors of all ages.






M. Sarah Klise has always had a fondness for creating colorful book reports, which began in elementary school with yarn-bound volumes on states and countries. In college, she enjoyed writing heavily illustrated letters home to her mother. Years later, she still does variations of all that when she illustrates books for young readers. She also teaches art classes in Berkley, CA.

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