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If it weren't for the writing, I might have enjoyed Flawed Dogs The Novel by Berkeley Breathed. Its message, like that of Breathed's picture book, is one everyone should read. But where the picture book conveys this message through cute illustrations and whimsical verse, the novel warps this message through bitter heroes, violent storyline, and a writing style that is sometimes painful to read.

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Berkeley Breathed's picture book Flawed Dogs is so good, it deserves to be framed. But don't, because you'll want to reread it until its pages are ragged and taped with adoration.

 

http://allisonsbookbag.wordpress.com/2011/04/24/flawed-dogs-the-picture-book-by-berkeley-breathed/

Most of us have watched at least one natural disaster movie. In X-Isle, Steve Augarde brings the genre to the young adult book world. Yet this isn't just another catastrophe story. As one new situation after another presents itself, Augarde raises ethical questions. By asking these questions and in proving himself a master of description, Augarde elevates X-Isle above the norm.By asking these questions and in proving himself a master of description, Augarde elevates X-Isle above the… Continue

What are you passionate about? Who supports your interest? Have you ever been an activist? In Mustang Wild Spirit of the West by Marguerite Henry, Annie Johnston loves horses. So does her family and her future husband. One day after spying a cattle truck of horses more dead than alive, Annie became an activist. This is her story. What's even more noteworthy is that Annie Johnston, affectionately known as "Wild Horse…

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http://allisonsbookbag.wordpress.com/2011/04/02/interview-with-steve-augarde/

I don't have room in my current library for more books, but I liked Unwind so much that it's on my wish list for when I do. Moreover, I have been recommending it to all my reader friends--and now am recommending it to you. Unwind is a fabulous read!

http://allisonsbookbag.wordpress.com/2011/03/20/unwind-by-neil-shusterman/

http://allisonsbookbag.wordpress.com/2011/02/20/purple-princess-wins-a-prize-by-alyssa-crowne/

I really wanted to love Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins. After all, I had raced through the first two books in The Hunger Games trilogy both times that I read them. When news of the third book hit the web, I didn't even wait for its arrival at my local library but instead bought the boxed trilogy at a local bookstore. Yet despite winning me over by the end, this book is the weakest link.…

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Can one live alone? Can wild things be tamed? If one always has an exit through which one can escape, is that trust? These are the ideas explored by Clay Carmichael in first young adult novel aptly named Wild Things.

http://allisonsbookbag.wordpress.com/2010/12/26/wild-things-by-clay-carmichael/