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SUMMARY:In Conversation - Sarah Everett and Lawrence Hill - Panel Moderated by Ardo Omer
DESCRIPTION:Sarah Everett author of The Probability of Everything and Lawrence Hill author of Beatrice and Croc Harry will be in a panel discussion moderated by Ardo Omer Saturday January 27th. \n \nThe Probability of Everything  \nWon of the Governor General’s Literary Awards for Young People’s Literature \nA heart-wrenching middle grade debut about Kemi\, an aspiring scientist who loves statistics and facts\, as she navigates grief and loss at a moment when life as she knows it changes forever. \nEleven-year-old Kemi Carter loves scientific facts\, specifically probability. It’s how she understands the world and her place in it. Kemi knows her odds of being born were 1 in 5.5 trillion and that the odds of her having the best family ever were even lower. Yet somehow\, Kemi lucked out. \nBut everything Kemi thought she knew changes when she sees an asteroid hover in the sky\, casting a purple haze over her world. Amplus-68 has an 84.7% chance of colliding with earth in four days\, and with that collision\, Kemi’s life as she knows it will end. \nBut over the course of the four days\, even facts don’t feel true to Kemi anymore. The new town she moved to that was supposed to be “better for her family” isn’t very welcoming. And Amplus-68 is taking over her life\, but others are still going to school and eating at their favorite diner like nothing has changed. Is Kemi the only one who feels like the world is ending? \nWith the days numbered\, Kemi decides to put together a time capsule that will capture her family’s truth: how creative her mother is\, how inquisitive her little sister can be\, and how much Kemi’s whole world revolves around her father. But no time capsule can change the truth behind all of it\, that Kemi must face the most inevitable and hardest part of life: saying goodbye. \n  \nBeatrice and Croc Harry  \n“A book to treasure and share across generations.” —David Chariandy\, author of Brother \nBeatrice\, a young girl of uncertain age\, wakes up all alone in a tree house in the forest \nHow did she arrive in this cozy dwelling\, stocked carefully with bookshelves and oatmeal accoutrements? And who has been leaving a trail of clues composed in delicate purple handwriting? So begins the adventure of a brave girl’s search for identity and healing in celebrated author Lawrence Hill’s magical debut for young readers. \nThough Beatrice cannot recall how or why she ended up in the magical forest of Argilia—where every conceivable fish\, bird\, mammal and reptile coexist\, and any creature with a beating heart can communicate with any other—something within tells her that beyond this forest is a family that is waiting anxiously for her return. \nJust outside her tree house door lives Beatrice’s most unlikely ally\, the enormous and mercurial King Crocodile Croc Harry\, who just may have a secret of his own. As they form an unusual truce and work toward their common goal\, Beatrice and Croc Harry will learn more about their forest home than they could have ever imagined. And what they learn about themselves may destroy Beatrice’s chances of returning home forever.
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