Booktalking Colorado - Full Booktalk Record

Booktalking Colorado Full Record:

	Title:	The Steps
	Author:	Cohn, Rachel
	Date Published:	2003
	Genre:	Real Life
	Grade Level:	6 - 7
	Booktalker:	Sam Marsh

Booktalk:
I had to go to Australia to steal my dad back! Back from the Steps. Mom and dad, or Jack and Angelina as they insisted I call them, never had gotten married. They didn't believe in it when I was born. Then, they broke up, and dad met Penny who lived in Australia and had two kids. Then, he moved to Australia where he married Penny. I'd lost him to her, her daughter, Lucy, her son, Angus, and their baby Beatrice. I had to figure out their secret family language and steal Jack back. Me, Annabel (Anna-the-Belle to Jack) Whoopi "Goldberg" Schubert, the 7th grade, future fashion designer, class president of the Progress School on New York's Upper West Side, whose clothes will someday be featured in every important fashion mag in the world...did NOT know how to win my dad back.