Smart Dog
by Vivian Vande Velde
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Fifth grader Amy finds her life growing complicated when she meets and tries to hide an intelligent, talking dog who has escaped from a university lab.Tags
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Fifth-grader Amy's life is turned upside-down when an experiment, a dog who can talk, asks her help in saving his life. This was my 2nd time reading it - very sweet.
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To say that F-32 is a smart dog is a gross understatement. He is computer literate, articulate, and a good judge of human character. This subject of a brain-enhancing science experiment engineers his escape from a research college, selects his "best friend," unpopular fifth-grader Amy Prochenko, and follows her to school. Not since Officer Buckle's Gloria [Officer Buckle & Gloria (Putnam, show more 1995)] has a dog had such a profound impact on students. Amy finds new friends and inner resources as she helps save the pup from the clutches of the... show less
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Dogs -- children's/young adult fiction
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Talking dogs -- children's/young adult fiction
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50+ Works 10,607 Members
Vivian Vande Velde (born 1951, Rochester, New York) is an American author who writes books primarily aimed at children and young adults. She currently resides in Rochester, New York. Her novels and short story collections usually contain elements of horror, fantasy, and humor. Her book Never Trust a Dead Man (1999) received the 2000 Edgar Award show more for Best Young Adult Novel. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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