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A guest post by Jacquelyn Mitchard
Today’s guest post is brought to you courtesy of Jacquelyn Mitchard! Her newest book, What We Saw At Night, focuses on the sport/lifestyle of Parkour. Her mission today is to share with you a little bit about her research into the subject, and how it plays into the book! Enjoy! ********************* When I found out that my son had done Parkour, and above the ground, building to building, I was horrified at first. Then I learned more about it, and the total beauty of the sport (I should call it a discipline, not a sport because it’s more like tai…
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Book Review: What We Saw At Night
Media Type: Print Book (ARC) Title: What We Saw At Night Author: Jacquelyn Mitchard Publisher: Soho Teen Pages: Hardcover; 272 Release Date: January 8, 2013 Source: Publisher ————————————————— Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Mild Language —————————————————- HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers looking for an outside the box read, with original characters. Add it: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N Allie Kim suffers from Xeroderma Pigmentosum: a fatal allergy to sunlight that confines her and her two best friends, Rob and Juliet, to the night. When freewheeling Juliet takes up Parkour—the stunt-sport of scaling…