I love the cover for THE TRAZ! I believe it is the girl’s eyes that
draw one into the picture.
In the story, Katrina’s icy, clear,
brilliant, deep blue eyes are mentioned often. In fact, everyone’s eyes are
mentioned—Shrug’s slate grey eyes, Chad’s liquid dark eyes, Stack’s black
eyes. Eye contact and body
language play a large part in THE TRAZ—highly reflective of what happens during
street-level communication.
Clever members of criminal gangs seldom say
what they really mean—motives are concealed, business is conducted in coded
language, and exotic words and phrases known only to members bind the gang
together.
Those who possess secrets, knowledge, and information are those who
become powerful.
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To survive in a gang one must at the very
least be able to interpret emotions expressed in basic body language. To
advance in a gang, to attain a position of power, one must be able to both
conceal one’s emotions and thoughts and see through the facades of others.
Katrina, as young as she is, is fairly
adept at reading body language and rapidly hones that skill as she struggles to
stay safe amidst the danger.
Learning to read others is a life-enhancing
skill for all of us. Being able to tell if someone is joking or serious, sad or
angry, focused or distracted is vital in both personal and work place
relationships.
Not until we leave behind the self-centred
thinking of childhood does our awareness of others become keen enough to read
body language. THE TRAZ may be a
teen reader’s first exposure to the concept that much can be said without the
use of words.
It’s my hope that by the end of the book,
my young readers will have lost a bit of the egocentricity of childhood and
begun to develop the socially important ability to both ‘speak’ and understand
body language.
Eileen Schuh, Author
FATAL ERROR
Schrödinger's Cat
THE TRAZ
Web site: http://www.eileenschuh.com
Blog: http://eileenschuh.blogspot.com
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