Chapter & Verse Book Club: In a Heartbeat by Loretta Ellsworth and Lucy Long Ago by Catherine Thimmesh

Start: 04/15/2010 6:30 pm

The Chapter & Verse Book Club will be discussing In a Heartbeat by Loretta Ellsworth and Lucy Long Ago by Catherine Thimmesh.

In a Heartbeat (Hardcover)

By Loretta Ellsworth

$16.99

ISBN-13: 9780802720689
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Walker Childrens, 2/2010

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When a small mistake costs sixteen-year-old Eagan her life during a figure-skating competition, she leaves many things unreconciled, including her troubled relationship with her mother. From her vantage point in the afterlife, Eagan reflects back on her memories, and what she could have done differently, through her still-beating heart. When fourteen-year-old Amelia learns she will be getting a heart transplant, her fear and guilt battle with her joy at this new chance at life. And afterwards when she starts to feel different—dreaming about figure skating, craving grape candy—her need to learn about her donor leads her to discover and explore Eagan’s life, meeting her grieving loved ones and trying to bring the closure they all need to move on. Told in alternating viewpoints, In a Heartbeat tells the emotional and compelling story of two girls sharing one heart.

Lucy Long Ago: Uncovering the Mystery of Where We Came From (Hardcover)

By Catherine Thimmesh

$18.00

ISBN-13: 9780547051994
Availability: Special Order - Subject to Availability
Published: Houghton Mifflin Books for Children, 5/2009

Illustrated in full color throughout with stunning compuer-generated artwork and with rare paleo photography, this story of scientific sleuthing invites us to wonder what our ancestors were like. From the discovery of Lucy's bones in Hadar, Ethiopia, to the process of recovering and interpreting them (a multidisciplinary approach with contributions from paleontologists, paleoanthropologists, archeologists, geologists and geochronologists), this book shows how a pile of 47 bones led scientists to discover a new -- and, at 3.2 million years old, a very very old -- species of hominid, ancestral to humans. Scientists involved include: James Aronson, geochronologist at Dartmouth, NH John Gurche, paleoartist at Cornell, NY Donald Johansen, scientist at Institue of Human Origins at Arizona State University Owen Lovejoy, biological anthropologist at Kent State, Ohio Dirk Van Tuerenhout at Houston's Museum of Natural Science, Texas.

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