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03 Mar, 2008

Review: What My Girlfriend Doesn’t Know

Posted by: Bonnie In: Children's Lit

Bibliography:
Sones, Sonya. 2007. What my girlfriend doesn’t know. New York: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers. ISBN: 9780689876028.
Plot Summary:
Robin Murphy is a reluctant outcast among his high school peers, so much that his last name has become a synonym for “loser”.  However, he does have one thing going for him – his girlfriend Sophie Stein [...]

03 Mar, 2008

Review: What My Girlfriend Doesn’t Know

Posted by: Bonnie In: Children's Lit

Bibliography:
Sones, Sonya. 2007. What my girlfriend doesn’t know. New York: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers. ISBN: 9780689876028.
Plot Summary:
Robin Murphy is a reluctant outcast among his high school peers, so much that his last name has become a synonym for “loser”.  However, he does have one thing going for him – his girlfriend Sophie Stein [...]

01 Mar, 2008

Review: Meow Ruff

Posted by: Bonnie In: Children's Lit

Bibliography:
Sidman, Joyce. 2006. Meow Ruff: A story in concrete poetry. Ill. by Michelle Berg. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. ISBN: 0618448942.
Plot Summary:
A dog escapes the confines of its house and a cat is seemingly dropped off in the street.  The dog begins a swift pursuit of the cat, who is at first oblivious to being tracked.  The dog [...]

27 Feb, 2008

Review: Bow Wow Meow Meow

Posted by: Bonnie In: Children's Lit

Bibliography:
Florian, Douglas. 2003. Bow wow meow meow: It’s rhyming cats and dogs. San Diego: Harcourt. ISBN: 0152163956.
Plot Summary:
Douglas Florian has published several themed poetry collections about mammals, insects, and amphibians, but bow wow meow meow is devoted solely to dogs and cats.  Florian has chosen some of the most popular breeds of canines and felines and constructed short, descriptive rhymes [...]


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