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Baby
ALAN Review, Fall 2007 by Beemer, Judy
Baby by Joseph Monninger Troubled Teens/Animals Front Street, 2007, 173 pp., $16.95 ISBN: 1-59078-502-9 978-1-59078-502-7
Abandoned by her mother, Baby has one last chance before juvenile detention: agedhippy foster parents who run sled dogs. First the dogs and then the Potters win Baby over. Then Bobby, an old boyfriend, draws her back into street life and more trouble. The dogs have tamed her, though, and from her bonds with them, she finds her way back and her place in the pack, both human and canine.
Monninger captures the thrill of racing sled dogs and Baby's struggle to learn new choices. His smooth plot and non-sentimental prose will pull both males and females effortlessly along the trail. Yet his understated comparisons of animals to humans will leave readers much to ponder after they reach the finish line. A simple story, beautifully told.
Judy Beemer
Junction City, KS
Copyright Assembly on Literature for Adolescents -- National Council of Teachers of English Fall 2007
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