Join Scatter as he navigates through life, the job market and a city full of crazies all keeping him from doing what he loves, being a Killer Brain. He just wants to live life doing what he loves but sometimes responsibility has a way of rearranging your priorities. Can Scatter get by without a little help from family and friends. He must navigate life while trying not to fall into the clutches of his would-be nemesis. Case will stop at nothing to exact his revenge and seek the closure he has sought since he watched his parents get devoured by Killer Brains as a child. Justin Case is out to avenge the death of his parents at the hands of the Killer Brains. But Scatter is about to find out life isn't fair.Ĭrazed neurosurgeon, Dr. Scatter would rather do what he does best, terrorize the city with his pack of Killer Brain friends. But he can't, his parents want him to get a job. Just ask Scatter, a Killer Brain who just wants to be a Killer Brain.

And in her unforgettable portrait of the home front, Hunter has brought to life the daily trials and tribulations of a generation of women who had to stand by while their men went to war.It's hard being a Killer Brain. In Natalie, Hunter has created a spunky, outspoken and utterly charming character, which readers young and old will revel in. And as news of other boys reaches home - some of it good but so much of it bad - Natalie begins to wonder what kind of world will be there for them all when the war finally ends.Īt times funny and at other times deeply moving, Bernice Thurman Hunter's last novel is drawn from her own memories of being a teenager in Toronto during World War II. In That Scatterbrain Booky, she overhears her parents arguing over the fate of her mom’s unborn baby, and in With Love From Booky. But it is during this time, when she is taking the most pride in her war work, that Natalie and her family get the news they've been dreading: her cousin, a gunner in the Dambusters Squadron, is listed as missing, presumed dead. Buying War Saving Stamps with her meager earnings is not enough for Natalie, however, and soon she finds work at De Havilland Aircraft, making bombers. Now she quits school and takes a job at a department store. Her first move was to change her name from Beryl, which didn't sound sophisticated at all. There are still dances at the Armories to meet handsome boys in uniform, but is that all a girl can do for the war effort? And like her other girlfriends, Natalie is getting tired of waiting for the war to be over. Too often she takes the trip to Union Station to wave goodbye to another friend, wondering if he'll ever come home again. But it's 1944, and almost all the boys she knows have signed up and are being shipped overseas to fight the war in Europe.

Like any teenager, Natalie wants to have fun.

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