Laura Hart Hart itibaren Stanthorne, Cheshire West and Chester, Unuiĝinta Reĝlando
I LOVED this book. Bio-tech gone wrong. Such a great genre. Love to read more like it. Kind of like Handmaid's Tale- dystopian fiction rocks.
I choose this as a group novel with my recovery reading class because 1) shortish chapters 2) offers some informational text, along with the narrative 3) I could get a classroom set at the public library 4) I thought my class might be interested in the dog story It's working reasonably well for my classroom purposes, although it's not uniformly readable for my students. As a book for my personal tastes, it doesn't impress me much. The voice doesn't appeal to me--not terribly polished syntactically, and too often self-aware. (Not a big fan!) My kids are not totally compelled by it, either, but again, it does provide varied learning opportunities for applying reading strategies. And, I could use it for free. As far as dog stories, I much preferred The Art of Racing in the Rain, by Garth Stein.