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 * No More Dead Dogs**

Author: Gordon Korman Year Published: 2002 Setting: Bedford Middle School



The cover for //No More Dead Dogs//.

Plot (WARNING! Contains Spoilers):

Wallace Wallace was a seventh grader who always told the truth. As a result, he got in trouble when he wrote a book report on //Old Shep, My Pal// by Zack Paris. Wallace knew that if you saw a book with an award and the word //DOG// on it, you knew the dog was going to die by the end of the novel. Mr. Fogelman gave Wallace detention, and as a result, Wallace couldn't go to the Giants' football practice after school until a proper book report was written. The Giants were outraged, as they thought Wallace was their best player ever. They tried to help by writing him a proper book report, but Wallace couldn't hand in work that wasn't his.

The big school play was of the novel //Old Shep, My Pal//. While Wallace was in detention, he had great ideas for the play, such as having a stuffed dog riding an RC car getting run over by a moped, for a more action-like scene, and turning the play into a musical. Most People agreed with Wallace's ideas, but Mr. Fogelman lost control over the play. He had no choice but to let Wallace out of detention and back into the Giants. The Giants were pleased to see Wallace, but Wallace announced he was quitting the Giants to work on the //Old Shep, My Pal// play. At the same time, somebody was sabotaging the play in various ways, and Wallace was blamed. Rachel Turner, on the other hand, believed Wallace was innocent, because she secretly wanted him to be her boyfriend. She tried everything to impress him, including some perfume, which Wallace was allergic to.

When all 45 scripts for //Old Shep, My Pal// were shredded, Wallace was blamed, and as a result, Wallace was banned from the play. Opening night, Wallace snuck into the play to see what a success it was, and found the culprit, Dylan Turner, Rachel's younger brother, with his final attack on the play, a bomb inside Old Shep's paw. Wallace had pushed Old Shep out of the way before he exploded, and Rachel Turner asked who the culprit responsible was. Wallace told his first lie ever, saying it was him, so that Rachel would not be too tough on her brother. Rachel eventually found out it was her brother, and according to Rachel, Dylan was grounded for "six hundred years".

This is one of the greatest and funniest chapter books I have ever read in my life. It has many comedic events, and it also shows how people's feelings can be changed towards other people, as proven by Rachel Turner's affections toward Wallace Wallace. My overall rating for this book is a 4.7 out of 5.