North Bay, Ontario Canada author T M Deschamp"s The Puppet Triangle selected as Best Children"s Book Of 2006 Award by NewBookReviews.org
- MADILL, OK, January 29, 2007 - New Book Reviews announced the 2006 winners in the NBR.org"s Spotlight 2006 Best Book of the Year Award. T M Deschamp"s The Puppet Triangle has been selected as the best children"s book of 2006 by New Book Reviews editors and reader base. Each year NBR.org selects from their Spotlight Book of the Week Winners, the best children"s book of the year.
New Book Reviews criteria for Book of the Year Awards are: writing style and professionalism, marketability, subject interest, reader"s preference and.editor"s preference.
Puppet Triangle - T M Deschamps -ISBN 1-4241-2153-1 Publish America
Synopsis: Twelve-year-old Brock Statler lives in northern Ontario, Canada. Brock is overwhelmed by loneliness and feels abandoned after his parents" divorce, his grandfather"s death, and his only friend gone for the summer holidays. A learning disability limiting self-confidence requires a major boost for Brock"s challenge to survive the summer alone. Brock"s decision to transform into a confident, risk-taking, adventurous person becomes a challenge of a lifetime when he befriends a class troublemaker. Justin Galley leads Brock into a nightmare of crime and punishment. A friendship develops with a senior citizen through Brock"s sentencing, and he reconnects with his deceased grandfather. Brock finds true friendship, which fills his grandfather"s loss, and his learning skills improve. A horrifying summer results in a growth in maturity, learning lessons of life, along with difficult challenges providing Brock with experience in making life-threatening decisions.
The New Book Review:
The Puppet Triangle is a must read for boys living with a single parent. The author, Theresa Deschamps, vividly describes the relationships that carry the main character through the trials of the triangle. The story line is compelling enough that I read this book in one setting, I did not want to put it down! The story is about a young boy who, has lost relationships due to divorce, death, and distance. Without realizing it, he draws from the relationships he still has, to pull him out of trouble in his newest relationship. The planned summer of chasing fun and adventure became his summer of growth and realization. He learns that some people don"t always tell the truth. He learns to appreciate his own values and to rely on the morals his father and grandfather have passed down to him. His best rewards come in a 3rd relationship that is worth the time invested. The Puppet Triangle should be in every middle school library because it touches on the trials of so many young boys who are living with the same losses and misconceptions of self. Single parents should also put The Puppet Triangle on their list of books to read. It is a great example of how children think they have everything under control when they don"t. It also shows that if a parent takes the time to teach, it will come back when the child most needs it.
Tina Moore editor5(at)newbookreviews.org
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