Smart Dog - Softcover

Vande Velde, Vivian

Softcover

ISBN 10: 015206172X ISBN 13: 9780152061722

Publisher: Harper Collins, 2022

Synopsis

Amy Prochenko is only in fifth grade, but she already has a sixth grader's problems: She is wildly unpopular, she is the target of prissy Kaitlyn Walker's nastiness, and everyone thinks she and the dweebiest boy in class are an item. Then one day Amy meets Sherlock, a dog on the run from a university lab. Sherlock is not like other dogs: He can talk, he's smarter than most of Amy's classmates--and he needs Amy's help. Suddenly Amy's life is full of danger and excitement, and she finds she is becoming, of all things, popular. Best of all, she finds in Sherlock the sort of friend she's always longed for--the sort of friend she must protect no matter what the cost.

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: Harper Collins
• Publication date: 2022
• ISBN 10: 015206172X
• ISBN 13: 9780152061722
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160