5/25/2023 0 Comments I must betray you by ruta sepetys![]() ![]() The family must whisper in their apartment, they must hide all their true thoughts and feelings or risk imprisonment or death. He must to do "mandatory volunteerism" on his days off and when he finishes school he will be assigned a menial job for the rest of his life.īut there is more, there are spies and bugs everywhere, even the family's apartment, even the bathroom is not safe. Cristian's parents work six days a week, twelve hours a day, while Cristian goes to school until 7pm six days a week. ![]() He and his family of five live in a tiny one bedroom apartment, Cristine sleeps in a closet, there is never enough food and they must stand in line for hours to get the tiniest bits of it. Now Cristian knows that this is all there is, nothing to look forward to, nothing will change unless it gets worse although there is not much worse than what they are living. In 1989, seventeen year old Cristian Florescu has never known anything else but the spirit and life crushing existence under this regime but from his grandfather he knows that things used to be so much better. ![]() While I knew some of what went on in Romania during the tyrannical twenty four year rule of Nicolae Ceaușescu, I wasn't aware of the details that we get from this story. ![]()
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5/25/2023 0 Comments Katie cat sitter![]() ![]() Strengths: While fantasy graphic novels don't always do well in my library, this book has two things that make it very appealing: colorful illustrations of the Telgemeier/Jamieson school, and CATS. When Mousetress is imprisoned, can Katie find out the real reason behind her arrest, and save the day with the help of the cats? Lang's apartment, Katie starts to suspect that her employer is, in fact, Mousetress. As she spends more time with the cats in Ms. The New York City in which Katie lives has a variety of super heroes, including the confusing Owl Guy, but also Mousetress, who is a supervillain. ![]() Lang returns home at the stroke of midnight, even if it involves repeatedly stealing couches belonging to the building busy body. They are all super interested in a variety of things but wreak havoc every night, managing to repair all of the damage to the apartment before Ms. Lang sees her interacting with the store cat at a convenience store Katie frequents, she hires Katie to cat sit in the evening until midnight. ![]() She doesn't have much luck with the jobs, some of which end more disastrously than others. In order to earn money to join her friend at an expensive summer camp, Katie puts up a flyer advertising her services for many kinds of jobs- babysitting, plant sitting, carrying groceries, etc. Katie lives in an apartment building with her mother, who frequently has to work. ![]() |