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Being Danny's Dog
Contributor(s): Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds (Author)

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 ISBN: 0689814720     ISBN-13: 9780689814723
Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
OUR PRICE: $8.54  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: April 1997
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Annotation: Another standout from the Newbery Award-winning author of Shiloh

Uprooted by his newly divorced mother from Chicago to a suburban development with few trees, fewer kids, and loads of strictly enforced rules, ten-year-old T. R. doesn't know what to do with himself anymore. So he starts trotting after his older brother, Danny, hoping to be included in activities and, at the same time, keeping a close watch over Danny's increasingly worrisome friendship with another boy. It's as if T. R. is becoming his brother's dog!

"Naylor knows how to play a setting for both laughs and realism; her treatment of sibling and friendship dynamics displays the same sure touch". -- Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes - New Experience
- Juvenile Fiction | Family - Siblings
- Juvenile Fiction | Animals - General
Dewey: FIC
LCCN: 95005280
Age Level: 9-12
Grade Level: 4-7
Lexile Measure: 800(Not Available)
Physical Information: 0.42" H x 5.04" W x 8.03" L (0.42 lbs) 160 pages
Features: Ikids, Price on Product
Accelerated Reader Info
Quiz #: 16922
Reading Level: 4.6   Interest Level: Middle Grades   Point Value: 5.0
 
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Publisher Description:
Everything's perfect at Rosemary Acres. All the streets are named after spices. The hedges and lawns are perfectly trimmed. The townhouses are all the same color.
For T.R. and his older brother Danny, things are too perfect. What are they going to find to do out here? They'd much rather still be living in Chicago with their aunt Cis, but their mom insisted that the move would be good, another step forward after her divorce from the boys' father.
Since that divorce Danny has tried his best to be the man of the family and T.R. often feels like Danny's dog -- trotting after him, hoping to be included but, at the same time, watching over him. Ever since Danny turned twelve he seems different to ten-year-old T.R. That makes T.R. want to keep an eye on Danny all the more.
Everything Danny and TR find to do at Rosemary Acres seems to be against the rules -- rules that not only they but their moody, volatile new friend Paul Brenimer, find more and more irksome, until Paul seems almost at the breaking point. Will he get Danny into trouble, too? How can faithful T.R. protect him against that?

Contributor Bio(s): Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds: - Phyllis Reynolds Naylor has written more than 135 books, including the Newbery Award-winning Shiloh and its sequels, the Alice series, Roxie and the Hooligans, and Roxie and the Hooligans at Buzzard's Roost. She lives in Gaithersburg, Maryland. To hear from Phyllis and find out more about Alice, visit AliceMcKinley.com.
 
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