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 Seeing Red book launch, Apr 2009 |
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Main character of MacDonald's Seeing Red is Antigonish skateboarder
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Book launch!
Antigonish Public Library (PARL)
Friday, April 17 @ 7:30 P.M.
Local author Anne Louise MacDonald will read from her new book for Young Adults, Seeing Red.
Everyone is welcome to join Antigonish Library staff as they celebrate the launch of this new book. Books available for purchase and signing plus door prizes. There is NO CHARGE to attend this event. For more info, please call the library at 863-2486.
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The main character and narrator of Seeing Red, by Antigonish author Anne Louise MacDonald, is thirteen-year old Frankie Uccello, an Antigonish skateboarder who dreams and volunteers with therapeutic horse riding. The story is set in a time when Antigonish doesn't have a skatepark.
Chapter 3 describes Frankie's first attempt to skate down Hawthorne Street:
"I was about halfway down, the board was my friend... when I realized that I had no idea how to stop! I dragged the sole right off of my sneaker, then bailed. Most of me made it to the bottom. Some skin decorated the concrete, and my knee bled like a waterfall."
More excerpts:
"Most people already thought skaters were all dummies and dropouts. Sure, a lot of the guys didn't do so well in school and the RCMP knew many of them by their first names, but our skateboarding club had members from elementary school to university students and even two guys who owned their own computer business.
"And then there was Graham, the only kid in ninth grade younger than me, but smarter than all of us put together--lazy but smart. Graham helped me learn my best trick, a one-eighty kickflip. He was a flatland artist, though he was as eager as the rest of us to test the ramps in the new skateboard park (if it ever got built). --p. 19
"Mr. Billings, the vice-principal, shouted from the main entrance, "There will be no skateboarding in the schoolyard before four P.M.!"--p. 27
"Since I'd done my homework in study period, I planned an evening jumping the concrete stairs behind the Credit Union."--p. 46
Read a review of Seeing Red
Read the first 49 pages of Seeing Red
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