Novel study— No more dead dog By Mandy Chau

~ Basic Information ~ Title of book : No More Dead Dog Author: Gordon Korman Type of book: Comedy Setting of book: Bedford Middle School, present day Theme of book: Integrity,friendship

~The target readers~  This book is a children’s novel  It is suitable children who is 9-15 year.

The Author Gordon Korman is a Canadian America author primarily of novels for children and young adults. He wrote his first book unexpectedly when he was twelve years old. He has written more than 75 books which have sold more than 17 million copies in a career that has spanned three decades. “No More Dead Dogs” was published in 2002.

Main character  Wallace WALLACE  Rachel TURNER  Steve CAVANAUGH  Rick FALCONI and Feather WRIGLEY  Nathaniel SPITZNER

Wallace WALLACE  The main character who never lies.  He is the middle school football star.  Rachel Tutner becomes his girlfriend.  Nobody understands him.  He was detained by the drama club.  He liked the drama crowd much better at the end.  He finds out that the real culprit is Rachel Turner's Wallace-obsessed little brother.  He fall in love with Rachel Turner at the end.

Rachel TURNER  The sister of Dylan.  She is a president of the drama club.  She becomes Wallace’s girl friend.  She is convinced that Wallace is the cause of these attempts to sabotage the play at the beginning.  After a lot of things, she is the only one who believes Wallace at the end.  She fall in love with Wallace at the end.

Steve CAVANAUGH  Wallace's best friend or ex-best friend  He is a football player, he also is a football team captain.  He likes to think of himself as the best player on the team.  He has cut ties with Wallace after knowing that the winning move was lucky.  He may become Trudi's boyfriend.

Rick FALCONI and Feather WRIGLEY  The son of the Coach  They are football players.  They are Wallace’s friends.  Rick is a star quarterback.  Feather eats a lot of celery.  Rick finds out that the real culprit is Rachel Turner's Wallace-obsessed little brother with Wallace.

Mr. Fogelman  He is Wallace’s English teacher.  He also is a drama teacher.  He is the person who detained Wallace and want him to join the drama club.  He can’t understand how anyone could dislike such a classic.  He is a very important character in this book.  Because of him, this story can be continued.

Main Plot Wallace WALLACE, is the middle school football star. He has promised himself to never tell a lie. He was asked to make a report on the book Old Shep, My Pal, where he had to review the English teacher latest. He got detention until he writes a good review by his English teacher, Mr. Fogelman because of he won’t lie about his feelings, so he expressed that he dislikes this book because the dog die, and writes some negative review in the report. He may not be free of detention until he writes a proper report.

What is the aim of this book? In modern society, most of classical novels all are false. For example, when you read some novel or movie which is about dogs, the dogs always died at the end. The author utilizes this idea to create this story and try to change the ending. He hopes that he can through this book to let readers know that stories can be rewritten too.

Book Review This book is a very interesting book. It is one of the most hilarious books I have ever read! Except it is hilarious, it also let me understand that I just need to be myself, I am me. For example, in order to get a good mark, we need to express wrong feelings, even though we dislike it, we still need to express that it is good. However, Wallace has the courage. He has the courage to do the thing which we cannot do. We should learn from him, to learn to not tell a lie.

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