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Title:

No more dead dogs

Author:

Korman, Gordon.

Publication Date:

2000

ISBN:

9780786805310

9780786824625

Personal Author:

Korman, Gordon.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication Information:

New York : Hyperion Books for Children, c2000.

Physical Description:

180 p. ; 22 cm.

Abstract:

Eighth-grade football hero Wallace Wallace is sentenced to detention attending rehearsals of the school play where, in spite of himself, he becomes wrapped up in the production and begins to suggest changes that improve not only the play but his life as well.

Local Note:

Adoptabook items #31738005388416 and 31738005381734 were given to the Pollock Pines Library by the Dogwood Garden Club.

Subject Term:

Theater -- Juvenile fiction.

Schools -- Juvenile fiction.

Football -- Juvenile fiction.

Genre:

Humorous stories, Juvenile.

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Summary

For use in schools and libraries only. Truthful Wallace gives a thumbs-down to a book much to the chagrin of his English teacher, who sentences him to help with a stage version of the book. Wallace is unaware that his plot-improvement suggestions will wind up changing the entire production.

Author Notes

Gordon Korman was born in Montreal, Canada on October 23, 1963. When his 7th-grade English teacher told the class they could have 45 minutes a day for four months to work on a story of their choice, Korman began This Can't Be Happening at Macdonald Hall. He was also the class monitor for the Scholastic TAB Book Club, so he sent his novel to the address on the TAB flyer, and a few days after his 14th birthday, he had a book contract with Scholastic.

By the time he graduated from high school, he had published five other novels and several articles for Canadian newspapers. He received a BFA degree from New York University with a major in Dramatic Writing and a minor in Film and TV. He has written over 75 books for children and young adults including the Swindle series, The Juvie Three, and two books of poetry written by the fictional character Jeremy Bloom.

(Bowker Author Biography)

Reviews (2)

Horn Book Review

After eighth-grade football hero Wallace pens an unflatteringly honest report on a canine classic, he lands in detention, forced to attend rehearsals for the school play--a production of the book he's dismissed. Various characters, most lacking dimension, relate the story, but Korman's trademark humor and his poke at the realm of required reading will find its mark with his fans. From HORN BOOK Fall 2001, (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

Booklist Review

Gr. 5-7. Here's one for every reader weary of being assigned novels in which the dog dies. For expressing his true views of Old Shep, My Pal, eighth-grade football hero Wallace Wallace earns a detention that takes him off the team and plunks him down in the auditorium, where his almost equally stubborn English teacher is directing a theatrical version of--you guessed it. To the delight of some cast members, but the loud outrage of Drama Club President, Rachel Turner, Wallace Wallace makes a few suggestions to punch up the production; by the end, it's a rock musical and the (stuffed) pooch actually pulls through. At least, that's the plan. Briskly stirring in complications and snappy dialog, Korman adds mystery to the fun with an unknown saboteur, caps the wildly popular play with an explosive (literally) climax, and finishes with Rachel and Wallace Wallace finally realizing that they were made for each other. Except for Old Shep, everyone, even the teacher, comes out a winner. --John Peters