Booktalk #1

Every kid's dream is to be named Most Valuable Player. But how many ever dream that the game is a race around the world (no flying allowed) in just 40 days? That's the challenge Adam Story faces in the Great Global Game. As the player for the *Magellan Voyage Project, he competes against 23 other players for a four-million-dollar prize! Of course the trackers in red sweat suits and hoodies with their blowguns and sleeping darts don't make things easy. Nor does the nefarious Baron von Sheepsbottom, who will stop at nothing to stop Adam. But it's time to go — the game's afoot!  (Rebecca Caudill Young Readers’ Book Award 2008)

Booktalk #2

Have you ever read a book where a bunch of twelve year olds have to travel around the world in fourty days or less? My favorite part was when Adam Story got sent to his first detention center.  I would recommend this book to kids in third or bigger grades.   (Babe Ruth, Farmington library)

SUBJECTS:      Voyages around the world -- Fiction.
                        Voyages and travels -- Fiction.
                        Travel -- Fiction.
                        Contests -- Fiction.
                        Adventure and adventurers -- Fiction.
                        Adventure fiction.

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