Named after jazz musician Thelonius Monk, Theo plays piano by ear–despite Uncle Raymond’s strict orders not to. One of Theo’s hobbies is baseball his favorite player is Hank Aaron, who in 1974 broke Babe Ruth’s home run record. The main character, Theo, is uprooted from his home in Kentucky and taken to a small town in Florida by his Uncle Raymond, a surly Vietnam War veteran who he doesn’t know at all. We prepared for our Skype visit by reading Scattergood’s second book, The Way to Stay in Destiny, which is set ten years later in 1974 during the wake of the Vietnam War. I may have a hard time getting my hands on it, though, because the 4th and 5th graders have been so excited to read it themselves! My one library copy has been off the shelf for a while now… □ I haven’t read Scattergood’s first book, Glory Be, yet, but it’s high on my ever-growing list of books to read soon! It’s set in 1964, Freedom Summer, and I really love historical fiction about the Civil Rights Movement. Yesterday, we enjoyed a Skype visit with Augusta Scattergood, author of Glory Beand The Way to Stay in Destiny: image from – click to visit! Our 2nd and 3rd grade Skype with Kate Messner in September was such a fun experience that I couldn’t wait to tell 4th and 5th grade the news: they would get to Skype with an author, too!
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