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My Rating For Dogsong WARNING : SPOILER ALERT My reading teacher gathered my group to the back table to discuss our new book. I seldom like the books the teacher picks out, and seeing that the title and front cover were hardly developed and thought over, I figured this would be another book that was violent, depressing, and honestly just frightening. I was certainly right regarding my prediction. After reading the first pages, I discovered that Russel wasn’t very friendly or talkative. He didn’t care for much of anything in his small village. Then, he goes to old man Oogruk’s house, and sits down while Oogruk tells him how to find his song after he felt that something wasn’t right. Russel is given an old dogsled, and he takes it on a small test drive around. Then, Oogruk passes away soon after. Russel does not cry or try to help, he just watches as his friend hopelessly sits by the ice. I feel that Russel is undeveloped and has no emotion whatsoever. Anyway, Russel continues on the ice, and falls asleep. Soon enough, he has a dream where he feels familiar with a man. I was confused enough, trying to visualize this dream. I couldn’t, because the whole book was not descriptive and used the same phrases repetitively. Back to the dream, as I see it that the man is Russel, I have trouble seeing that he had a past self older than he is in the present. I also refuse to believe that teenager Russel has had a past life, because it is obviously impossible. Trying to comprehend the story, I continued reading the spiral of boredom. Russel kills animals on his journey, which I feel is evoking children and teens to long for the “sensation” of poaching so they can find their own songs. If you want to find your song, look deep in your heart to find your own special power and don’t try to go out and run away killing animals and eating whatever you find. Although there is a hidden message in the story to embrace wildlife and the old ways, I think that Gary Paulsen has gone too far and has not thought about the evil things that he has put into his story. There is so much killing in this book, and Russel seldom cries about it. Seeing that the polar bear killed the happy dog, I figured Russel was going to cry, but of course,he didn’t. Need I say it once more, Russel is, by example, undeveloped and unemotional. It was right at the end when Russel spots a woman, dead, in the snow. I said to myself,”Not more violence! I can’t handle this!” I was expecting him to bury her or do some kind of ancient Alaskan sacrifice that I don’t understand on her. Of course, there are many crazy things for him to with her, and once again, Russel acts like it’s not catastrophic that he has just come upon a dead woman buried in the snow. So, Russel feeds and takes care of her. Didn’t see that coming. So, after a while, Russel finds out the woman’s name, Nancy, and finds out that she is going to have a baby. He becomes fond of her after noticing that she is the woman he was married to in the dream. When Nancy has her baby, back again comes the violence and depression. Russel places the baby on a snowy mountain after Nancy says she does not want to see it. I guess the baby ended up dying, which really just doesn’t make any sense why Paulsen even decided to put that bit about Nancy having a baby in there at all. Wouldn’t it just be better if Nancy wasn’t going to have a baby and Russel and Nancy became friends and got married? And couldn’t it be earlier in the book? What really disappointed me was that at the end, they take Nancy to the doctor. So, he did that whole run just to bring Nancy to the doctor? Thanks a lot for a massive waste of time.

This book was amazing! If you like funny books then you should read this one. It is one of the books that has so much humor. If you read this you will love it and it will be hilarious.

Wow. Good book. Walt Disney made another book where the main character's mom died. I don't know why Disney always does this... It is what it is, though. It may not have had a good moral but it was an okay book.

this book isn't really what you would expect from anormal book, i feel that this novel is maybe really bad but its an opinion idk,, i really think they should have made ruby have a more distinct character because i found her to be uninteresting like typically a girl her age should have been rebellious or like shy or smthn i liked some of the drama in the story but it could have been much better., as a hopeful future english-biology major i think they should add more realism like facts & stuff.,, overal it was mediocre, and it could have much more potential, if this book lived up to its potential i would have given it many more stars but it was super boring, personally. the rain was creative

It is just like the original one but shorter I loved it the pictures look so real it's amazing I hope you guys like it I recommend this book.

This is the cutest book! My younger sister reads it constantly and she isn't even in school yet! Definitely getting this for my kids:)

This book is very funny and gets my mind shakin! Its christmas time and its also time for the Bailey City School to get a new playground. The parnets are arguing and disagreeing about the playground.Not the best way to spread Christmas Cheer! The construction workers are odd and real short! Liza suspects there from the north pole! Hollis Bell,one of the construction workers,told the kids not to look in his trailer,but when they do,They see a bunch of Christmas Trees! GUESS YOULL NEED TO READ THE BOOK TO FIND OUT!!!

This book is amazing. It tells a romantic story between a guy who is famous and a regular girl. I personally love those kinds of stories, so I fell in love with this one. The story is well written and thought out and is a great book to just curl up on the couch with on a rainy day.

"You didn't really need so many bushels of fruit, did you? They were just lying around, so I have returned them to the hungry people of Sherwood"- Robyn. Robyn's dad has always told her about the dangers left over from the Crescent Rebellion, but she never gave it much thought until, one night, her parents go missing. Now, Robyn has gone from the daughter of well known government officials to number one on the Most Wanted list. Along with her newfound friend, Laurel, she must right the wrong, and help the people of Sherwood, all while trying to find her parents. This spin on the well known Robin Hood book, will defiantly have you on the edge of your chair!

This is a amazing 😉 book 📖 I want to read I but my mom won’t let me bummer Sumer it will be I want to read