[LM_NET] SHARE: Acceleration by Graham McNamee

["Ronda Y. Foust" <rfoust150@COMCAST.NET>]

Posted to TheBookDragon blog.  Oh, the list of librarians in YA and  
children's literature is up to 47.  Haven't gotten around to posting  
the list of dragons  yet.

Duncan's a 17-year old who lives in "the Jungle", the inner-city of  
Toronto. During the searing heat-wave of summer, his dead-end summer  
job in the Toronto Transit Authority's "morgue" (aka: Lost and Found)  
offers him some respite from the heat, but it doesn't offer him any  
relief from his nightmares. Or does it? Plagued with nightmares about  
the drowning girl he couldn't save, Duncan's world takes a CSI-type  
turn when he finds a journal amongst the "lost treasures" of the  
morgue--the things left on city buses or subway cars. This book is  
not just any journal--it's someone's chronicle of their descent into  
going from torturer of small animals, to arsonist, to a stalker of  
women--someone on the way to becoming a serial killer. The pictures  
and newspaper clippings in the journal are all too real, but the  
police don't seem willing to take Duncan's concerns seriously. Is the  
journal real or just someone's sick creative writing attempt? If the  
journal IS real, can Duncan find this man before he takes his first  
human victim? Read Acceleration by Graham McNamee to find out.

Duncan's voice rings true and it's almost as hard to put the book  
down as it is to find a copy at our school library--yep, it's checked  
out THAT often. Recommended for Grades 8 and up.


Ronda Y. Foust
School Media Specialist
Karns High School
Knoxville, TN
readingdragon@comcast.net
http://thebookdragon.blogspot.com/



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