Reading award winners
This week I've been reading award winning books. My local library JUST got in the books that are on the short list for the National Book award for young people so I totally SCORED. I'd read three of them already, so I had two left. This week I read one of them called "Threatened" by Eliot Schrefer. He also wrote Endangered which was also on the short list for the National Book award last year and I can totally see why. "Threatened" was such an interesting story with very compelling characters and very topical situations. It's about a boy named Luc who lives in Gabon. He is so ignorant that as he starts to tell his story, I was bit confused about how he had come to live in a boarding house (essentially a share cropper kind of situation where he owed a lot of money from his mother's and sister's extended hospital stay so he was working off the debt, which sounded like it would probably take forever). Luc is serving drinks at a local bar whe...