"The biggest complaint that readers may have about Burt’s debut novel is that it ends. ”-Wendy Mass, New York Times-bestselling author of The Candymakers and Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life "This inventive, clever story has a lot of heart at its center. Martin, New York Times-bestselling author of Rain Reign and the Baby-Sitters Club series Nicki relates her unusual experiences with humor and with a commitment that melted my heart and made me wish I’d known her when I was in seventh grade. Part coming of age tale and part spy thriller, Greetings from Witness Protection could be a collaboration between Judy Blume and Ian Fleming.
"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.Īn Autumn 2017 Kids’ Indie Next List Selection Jake Burt's debut middle-grade novel Greetings from Witness Protection! is as funny as it is poignant. As she barely balances the responsibilities of her new identity, Nicki learns that the biggest threats to her family’s security might not lurk on the road from New York to North Carolina, but rather in her own past. Nicki swears she can keep the Trevor family safe, but to do so she’ll have to dodge hitmen, cyberbullies, and the specter of standardized testing, all while maintaining her marshal-mandated B-minus average.
After all, the bad guys are searching for a family with one kid, not two, and adding a streetwise girl who knows a little something about hiding things may be just what the marshals need. 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. Marshals’ best bet to keep a family alive. But who needs real when you've suspended your reality to take a romp into witness protection land? Not since Miss Congeniality has deep cover been so rollicking.Nicki Demere is an orphan and a pickpocket. She's inventoried herself a little too thoroughly to be real.
This is where the quick pace could have cooled its heels - Nikki is a 13-year-old going on 30, yes, but she reads as being way more controlled than a girl her age should be. Though the page-turning plot is deftly narrated by a savvy survivor, Nikki's necessary human vulnerability is not given all of the play it truly deserves. And the well-conceived premise doesn't disappoint when the ending pops into view. The characters in Greetings From Witness Protection! come alive with the intensity of people who are really invested in their circumstance. This delicious debut novel written by fifth-grade teacher Jake Burt nails the quick pace and turn of phrase you want a thriller for tweens to showcase.
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