Tweens and early teens are dealing with so many different things, this book stayed very true to that while adding WITSEC on top of it. I appreciated Charlotte’s strength and I really admired the honesty and truth in Brit’s character. I see this being enjoyed by a wide range of readers, my 10 year old daughter included. I read it in 3 days and stayed up way too late one night finishing it. 'The biggest complaint that readers may have about Burt’s debut novel is that. Wendy Mass, New York Times -bestselling author of The Candymakers and Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life. While she struggles to be average, she really does save the day when her new family needs her most. Praise for Greetings from Witness Protection: 'This inventive, clever story has a lot of heart at its center. As she barely balances the responsibilities of her new identity, Nicki learns that the biggest threats to her familys security might not lurk on the road from. Her experience as a foster child makes starting school mid-year relatively easy and she doesn’t let middle-school drama get in her way. She is supposed to be an average, B-, student who doesn’t stand out in the crowd. It takes a lot of courage to be willing to give up your past and try to help out a family who has ratted out the mob.īut as Charlotte, she has taken a vow to try and keep her new family safe. I will admit that what first sucked me in to her world was Nicki’s love of a good book. While on one level this was a completely new take on the witness protection program, it was Charlotte/Nicki’s personality that made it so heartwarming and fun. Marshals with an offer to lose her juvie record and court-mandated therapy sessions by blending into a new family and keeping their secret safe. Everything changes when she is approached by U.S. After getting sent back from her most recent family, she finds that while her background of crime hasn’t helped her win over families, the US Marshalls might have a need for her to help hide a family of 3 by making them a family of 4. The book centers around 7th grader, Nicki Demere, who is an orphan (and a pickpocket) in the foster care system. Book Genre: Adventure, Childrens, Contemporary, Family, Fiction, Humor, Middle Grade, Mystery, Realistic Fiction, Young Adult. Nicki Demere is a foster kid who happens to also be a kleptomaniac. PDF EPUB by Jake Burt Download, you can read below technical ebook details: Full Book Name: Greetings from Witness Protection Author Name: Jake Burt. Totally not surprising that the book is already a BEA Editor’s Buzz Pick for 2017! Quite impressive for a debut novel, but it is obvious that Jake Burt knows his audience well (he teaches 5th grade). I had so much fun reading this book and would find myself finding ways to sneak in a chapter here and there. Ages 8 12.Thanks to the network for the free review copy of his book – all opinions are my own. ![]() Through the eyes of a fierce and compassionate protagonist, Burt mixes snippets of science into the action, adding a layer of nonfiction to this entertaining, speculative look at selflessness and integrity. In her effort to save a life, she escapes not only her unit but an entire massive complex of apartments and encounters ominous drones, rat-infested compost heaps, and the reality that there is much more outside her walls than the threat of disease. ![]() But when a mysterious package of essential medicine is improbably delivered to her unit, the family's careful plans are thrown into disarray rather than prepare for a monumental test, Cleo assumes responsibility for getting the medicine to the rightful patient. From her own home, 12-year-old Cleo Porter has, with the assistance of her AI virtual instructor, been training since age six to become a remote drone surgeon like her mother. Burt (Greetings from Witness Protection!) writes a humorous, humanistic sci-fi adventure set in the near future, after the outbreak of a quickly mutating flu pushed citizens into sealed apartments.
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