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Originally Posted by kathymuggle
 Ok, i was reading the article, and came across this:
http://www.amazon.com/More-Dead-Dogs...4952744&sr=1-1  Here is the description: "Nobody understands Wallace Wallace. This reluctant school football hero has been suspended from the team for writing an unfavorable book report of Old Shep, My Pal. But Wallace won`t tell a lie-he hated every minute of the book! Why does the dog in every classic novel have to croak at the end? After refusing to do a rewrite, his English teacher, who happens to be directing the school play Old Shep, My Pal, forces him go to the rehearsals as punishment. Although Wallace doesn`t change his mind, he does end up changing the play into a rock-and-roll rendition, complete with Rollerblades and a moped!" Sounds like a good read for any of us forced to read the dog-dies books  |
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Originally Posted by kathymuggle
Here is the booklist:
Breadwinner Al Capone does my shirts Christmas Carol Where the Red Fern Grows some by Eric Wilson (forget title - but he is good!) |
Breadwinner has excellent insights into girls' lives in Afghanistan. Another poster made a very good point about the lack of female protagonists, so it answers that concern nicely. Al Capone Does My Shirts involves a child with likely autism, but it's sensitively handled and not overwhelming and I recall some good entertainment value too in the description of a kid living on Alcatraz. A Christmas Carol is a pretty familiar morality tale but that's its charm.
I'm glad its worked out well
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Originally Posted by kathymuggle
I am too. OT a little, but there is a documentary called "Not yet Rated" which discusses how movies with sex (particularly homosexual sex, or sex where people are experiencing pleasure) get the dreaded NC17 - while films where people have limbs sawn off are R or PG13. Very, very strange world we live in.
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