No More Dead Dogs, Gordon Korman
No More Dead Dogs, Gordon Korman
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No More Dead Dogs

Author: Gordon Korman

Narrator: Brian Keeler, Christina Moore, Scott Shina, Stina Nielsen, Johnny Heller

Unabridged: 4 hr 23 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 02/20/2015

Categories: Children's Fiction


Synopsis

Best-selling author Gordon Korman's middle-grade favorite!

Wallace Wallace won’t lie, even if it means detention. And after he handed in a scorching book report of the classic novel, Old Shep, My Pal, detention is just what he’s been handed. He is sure he’s done nothing wrong: he hated every
minute of that book, especially when the dog dies in the end! Why do dogs always die at the end?

Wallace refuses to do a rewrite of his report, so his English teacher, who happens to be directing the school play of Old Shep, My Pal, forces him go to the rehearsals to teach him a lesson on why the story is the way it is. Surrounded
by theater kids who are apprehensive of him, Wallace sets out to prove himself. But not by changing his mind. Instead, he changes the play into a rock-and-roll rendition, complete with Rollerblades and a moped!

About Gordon Korman

Gordon Korman published his first book at age fourteen and since then has written more than one hundred middle grade and teen novels. Favorites include the New York Times bestselling Ungifted, Supergifted, The Superteacher Project, The Unteachables, Pop, Notorious, Unplugged, Operation Do-Over, Slugfest, and the Masterminds series. Gordon lives with his family on Long Island, New York. You can visit him online at gordonkorman.com.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Robin on June 04, 2021

This has been a family favorite for many years now, so perhaps it is time to actually write a review of it. As usual, my effort will be to let you know about the book while avoiding spoilers. The title says a great deal. No More Dead Dogs. In my long ago school years, we had required summer reading.......more

Goodreads review by Darla on January 12, 2023

Wallace Wallace has been "big fished" a few too many times by his dad. WW can NOT tell a lie. His moral high horse becomes a bit uncomfortable when there is a disagreement with his English teacher over his intense dislike for the classic Old Shep, My Pal. A detention sentence sets in motion a quick-......more

Goodreads review by Jessica on July 14, 2015

A cute middle grade book that pretty much sums up how we all feel about books with dogs on the cover: The dog will die, and therefore the book sucks. Though classic dead dog books like OLD YELLER and WHERE THE RED FERN GROWS are mentioned, the book within the book is fake, allowing Korman and his ma......more

Goodreads review by Kate on February 27, 2010

Korman creatively sets up this story like a screenplay with a list of characters at the very beginning of the story. Each chapter “enters” (or features) a different character (1st person point of view). Readers are hooked from the beginning with the humor of his father’s habit of lying. Because of t......more

Goodreads review by Kate on March 20, 2024

Entertaining, G-rated, middle-grade, comedy of errors, from 2000 Ever since 12-year-old Wallace Wallace was very young, he has insisted on telling the truth at all times, because his father is a pathological liar. Unfortunately, no one has ever explained to him the difference between fact and opinion......more