[LM_NET] BOOK: the boy who spoke dog by Morgan

[Frederick Muller <mullinator52@YAHOO.COM>]

Morgan, Clay. _The boy who spoke dog._Dutton, 2003 [0-525-47159-6]
  Jack is shipwrecked and washes up on a deserted island.  There was once a sheep 
farm on the island and the people have left (or died.) The sheep and sheep dogs 
still live there.  To survive, Jack has to befriend the dogs who still guard the 
sheep.  There are also dogs on the island who have gone back to being wild.  This 
is not a cutesy story where a boy speaks in dog talk (so the title is misleading.)  
In this 165 page book (told by both Jack and one of the dogs, Moxie) Jack learns to 
communicate with the dogs and they with him. After a long time when someone finally 
comes to rescue him, will Jack want to leave the island and the dogs.  This is a 
touching tale of survival and friendship between animals and one human.


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Frederick Muller, Librarian
Halsted Middle School (Grades 6-8)
59 Halsted Street
Newton, NJ  07860

my book comments are compiled at
www.halsted.org/br.htm

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MullerInTheMiddle.Blogspot.com

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