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Page Count: 192
Printing Date: November 10, 2003
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When Jack washes up on a mysterious island after a deadly storm, there’s no one to help him, except for the dogs. The sheepdogs on the island have eyes that speak right to Jack’s heart, especially one dog—Moxie. But when angry beasts called fangos threaten to destroy the island, Jack and his companions must fight to save it. Once the battle ends, Jack is changed. Will he ever be the same again? Told from Jack’s and Moxie’s points of view, this adventure reveals how loyalty between boy and dog becomes a means for survival and hope.
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I am a mother of two sons, ages 9 and 3. We read this book for eldest son's book club. He enjoyed it and asked to read "just one more chapter" constantly. I personally thought it was drawn out too long. The story of a boy who learns to love and give love through the setting of being abandoned to an island habitated by wild dogs, sheep dogs (and sheep). There aren't any fowl words, suggestive scenes or common crud that too often shows up in children's literature so I am thankful for this book. Over all I give it a 5 stars because it's clean fun, suspenceful reading that grabbed my childrens interest.
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WARNING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This book is very very sad!!!
I do not want to give away to much, but don't say that I didin't warn you!The begining is sad but it is made up for in the end...well, most of it anyway.
In summery, there is a boy named Jack and he is a captan boy on a ship (I can't think of it's name) that crashes onto an islend with lots of sheep- dogs and sheep.
It also has a forest with lots of "fangos*" witch are a therat to the dogs and sheep.
The boy doesent understand the dogs at very first but in the sad ending he does.
* Fangos are wild dogs that live in the forest.
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The Boy Who Spoke Dog is a book about a boy who was on a ship that was headed to disaster in a storm. The boy, Jack, escaped on a lifeoat and came to an island where two packs of dogs lived. Feral ones, called fangos, which attacked sheep on raids and ate them, and sheep dogs, which protected the sheep, and if the fangos had to run off before they could eat the sheep that they had killed, the sheep dogs would eat them. The sheep were all the dogs' food supply, so they relied on each other despite being enemies. Jack very first meets the fangos, where he escapes up a tree. Soon, he manages to escape, following a grey and white border collie called Moxie by the rest of the sheep dogs. Moxie leads Jack to a broken-down hut surrounded by sheep and sheep dogs guarding them. Soon, a fango raid commences and Jack helps out. From then on, Jack tries hard to survive, eating some of the sheep that the fangos took down. Both sheep dogs, fangos, and now Jack live off the sheep. He got the meat by way of a knife. Sage, the oldest dog and the only one, besides Fango, the leader of the fangos, to remember humans, brings Jack to a sack filled with some items needed for Jack's survival. Eventually, Jack gets cornered by Fango and some others while trying to run for the shore, and Moxie saves him after Fango tries to stutter some words, but fails due to his corruption. Finally, the ship that Jack bailed out on comes back to forcefully pick him off the island. The arrival of the ship solved his problem of surviving, but he was reluctant to leave the dogs he somehow has suddenly formed a telepathic bond with. That is a plot point I didn't really understand. He communicates with Sage's spirit after he gets killed by fangos, then communicates with Moxie. I think you are supposed to believe the trauma or the extended living with the dogs caused it, but it is not fully explained. This is mainly why I rated it 4/5, instead of 5/5, since the author uses vivid language and creativity to express the story of the boy who learned to speak dog (somehow).
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Truly disappointing. This book, though well-intentioned, falls short of what I find to be compelling YA writing. There is a sense of illogic in this book and "over-writing" in many of the scenes within.
Relating the tale of a boy tossed from a ship during a storm (why?), THE BOY WHO SPOKE DOG is meant to be the story of the boy, Jack, and the dog Moxie. The intention is that the chapters alternate between Boy chapter and Dog chapter, but after about ten chapters, that falls apart. Despite some strengths in progressing the story, in the last fifteen pages, suddenly the Boy can telepathically speak with the dogs. Huh? I know it's THE BOY WHO CAN SPEAK WITH DOGS, but the sudden shift in story focus does NOT work.
Of the books on the 2006-2007 Sunshine State book reading list, this one disappoints the most for me.
3 generous stars out of 5 from me.
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the boy who spoke dog was a very adventurist book. and it is a story of partnership and friend ship i could not stop reading it!!!! i highly recomend that you read this book.
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