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Booktalking Colorado Full Record:
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Title: |
Flush |
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Author: |
Carl Hiaasen |
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Genre: |
Humor |
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Grade Level: |
5-8 |
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Booktalker: |
Sam Marsh |
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Booktalk:
Okay, so my dad’s not the most normal dad in the world. So maybe he’s a hero of lost causes. And maybe he has a temper and doesn’t always think things through. Like the consequences and how it will affect his family, and like how evidence might be nice to have. But, he always takes responsibility for what he has done.
When he sank Dusty Muleman’s casino boat because he found out that Dusty had been having the crew flush the sewage directly into the bay where we all swim to save money, dad calmly waited on shore in a deck chair for the police to arrest him. He wanted the publicity. He wanted an investigation and for Dusty to get his due.
That’s when mom started using the d-word, divorce. And that’s when my sister Abbey and I decided that we’d have to do something to prove dad was right and Dusty was the scumbag he was. Operation Royal Flush.
Of course we were too young to realize just how much money talks in politics and government.
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