Smart Dog - Hardcover

Vande Velde, Vivian

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0152018476 ISBN 13: 9780152018474

Publisher: Harcourt Childrens Books, 1998

Synopsis

Amy Prochenko is unpopular and the target of prissy Kaitlyn Walker's nastiness, but when Amy meets Sherlock, a runaway dog who can talk, she finds herself becoming popular and best of all, she has found a true friend she must protect no matter what.

About this title

Review:

"Sherlock and Amy will have readers cheering for them. The accessible vocabulary, quick-moving plot, and humor make the novel appealing for reluctant readers."--The Horn Book
"Rendered with an abundance of charm and wit."--Publishers Weekly

From the Author:

How I Came To Write SMART DOG
Like a lot of my stories, SMART DOG is the result of 2 (in other cases it's been more) separate strands of thoughts coming together: (1) The thought (dream? wish?) probably shared by just about everyone who has ever owned and loved a dog: Wouldn't it be great if I could talk to my dog and my dog was smart enough to talk to me?

At the same time this thought was rattling around my head, (2) I was talking to some writer friends about school bullies, and I was thinking that, in my experience, girls tend to bully just as much as boys do--but that they have a totally different way of doing it.

That said, I have to admit that our family doesn't currently own a dog. We have a rabbit and the pair of mice that my daughter bought the first week she was away from home at college this year. (Except, of course, that the mice were discovered, thrown out of the dorm, and now there are 10 of them...)

About this edition

• Publisher: Harcourt Childrens Books
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0152018476
• ISBN 13: 9780152018474
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 144