Straydog
by Kathe Koja
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Author: Kathe KojaEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2004-03-30
ISBN: 0142400718
Number of pages: 128
Publisher: Speak
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Book Review: AFRAID is a tangible force . . .
Summary: 5 Stars
This thin volume is the story of Rachel, a high school Outsider alienated from the plastic masses. Her one peer is a new student who shares her gift for the written word.
Rachel volunteers at a local animal shelter -- a thankless job with no paycheque. Her supervisor is alternately shrill and cold, but there is an older animal control officer type who sees Rachel's potential and befriends her.
A problem arises when a vicious feral collie with a badly infected leg is captured and caged. The naive Rachel "identifies" with the straydog and believes that she can tame it. She names it, feeds it treats, sits with it, coos to it, and begins writing poetry about it to submit for a contest. Her equally naive peer thinks they should build a pen for it behind his house where they all can play in the sun happily ever after.
But this dog is vicious, and wild, and uncontrollable. Everything is AFRAID AFRAID and the They have it in a cage and it cannot run so it BITES and They hold it down while the cool cool dark like sleep comes and . . .
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Kathe Koja made tyr_shadowblade cry -- and I'm somewhat pissed off about that -- but a book that affects me that profoundly HAS to be extremely good, so I gave it 5 stars.
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