Yeah, not many kids have that problem on their hands, making blending in crucial. What middle school student doesn’t struggle with finding that perfect balance? Of course, most teens aren’t facing the task of keeping an entire family off the radar so that they can live to see another day. She may just be getting a real family after all, but is it worth having to keep so many secrets? But when she gets pegged to help save a family in witness protection by joining them in hiding, her life gets turned upside down.
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Nicki Demere is an orphan with quick fingers she knows how to use. You’ll get the Monitor Weekly magazine, the Monitor Daily email, and unlimited access to you are looking for a FANTASTIC middle grade read to end your year with, this is a great choice! It’s a heartwarming adventure story that involves kleptomania, witness protection, nerdy gamer friends, a deadbeat dad, and all the trappings that truly make family family. If you’re looking for bran muffin journalism, you can subscribe to the Monitor for $15. We’re about kicking down the door of thought everywhere and saying, “You are bigger and more capable than you realize. We have a mission beyond circulation, we want to bridge divides. We’re known as being fair even as the world becomes as polarized as at any time since the newspaper’s founding in 1908. We’re run by a church, but we’re not only for church members and we’re not about converting people. The Monitor is a peculiar little publication that’s hard for the world to figure out. And I’m going to argue that we change lives precisely because we force open that too-small box that most human beings think they live in. We’re the bran muffin of journalism.īut you know what? We change lives. We’re seen as being global, fair, insightful, and perhaps a bit too earnest. If you were to come up with a punchline to a joke about the Monitor, that would probably be it. Sometimes, we call things ‘boring’ simply because they lie outside the box we are currently in.” My work in Kenya, for example, was heavily influenced by a Christian Science Monitor article I had forced myself to read 10 years earlier. “Many things that end up” being meaningful, writes social scientist Joseph Grenny, “have come from conference workshops, articles, or online videos that began as a chore and ended with an insight. I hope there are many more to come.Ībout a year ago, I happened upon this statement about the Monitor in the Harvard Business Review – under the charming heading of “do things that don’t interest you”:
After all, the bad guys are searching for a family with one kid, not two, and adding a streetwise girl who.
Marshals’ best bet to keep a family alive.The marshals are looking for the perfect girl to join a mother, father, and son on the run from the nation’s most notorious criminals.
Count me as a new fan of Jake Burt’s books. Nicki Demere is an orphan and a pickpocket. Yes, there’s a big action scene at the end, but the violence is minimal and the resolution, if not happily ever after, is very satisfying. The story is at times hilarious, excitingly frightening, and told with great care. She feels like she’s carrying “the entire Trevor family on my back,” and she can’t even share her real name. A girl who’s never been inside an airport must start life anew, with an unhappy, snarky younger brother to boot. And in the short time it takes to train her to handle a taser, Nicki becomes Charlotte. Enter a team of federal agents with a proposition. Nicki is resourceful yet vulnerable (she's been given a diagnosis of anxiety disorder manifested in kleptomania, a topic handled adroitly by the author). Nicki's chances of being permanently placed with a loving family are close to nil. Her dad’s in prison – or so she believes – and her adoring granny has died. Nicki Demere has been in and out of the foster system much of her life. But that stretch of truth didn’t detract one bit from my enjoyment of Greetings from Witness Protection, Jake Burt's fast-paced and fun debut novel (ages 10-14). But I’m pretty sure the real deal wouldn’t involve changing a 13-year-old foster child’s identity to enable her to help two parents and their son hide from a crime family. Everything I know about witness protection programs I learned from television.
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