![]() ![]() We feel the pressures with which many of the other teenagers constantly cope. ![]() We go deep inside the minds of Logan and Cade, the two students who refuse to debate. THE ASSIGNMENT is told from varying points of view, but chapter breaks with title heads make the transitions easy to follow. The two sides would argue for the best way to eliminate the Jewish people. High school seniors in an Oswego, NY, area school were asked to portray Nazis in a debate. She was working on THE ASSIGNMENT at the time, and told me the true story that inspired the manuscript she was writing. I met Liza Wiemer at a Write On, Door County event last year, and we became instant friends. An additional line of copy, a question, is printed at the top: Would YOU speak up for what’s right? The title is stamped in bold red caps, the author’s name in smaller white type at the bottom. A simple drawing of students in a classroom-all but one seated, all but two with hands raised-illustrates the cover of Liza Wiemer’s novel, THE ASSIGNMENT. ![]()
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