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Winter 2005 Review:

Book Cover Barry, Boyhound

Andy Spearman

Alfred A. Knopf

© 2005

        Barry, Boyhound by Andy Spearman is book I’ll never forget. The entire story had me laughing, while waiting for my brother to finish his music lesson, hysterically and uncontrollably in public. It is a book with a weak storyline about a boy who turns into a dog while his body is still a boy. It is done so well in this novel that, between the two talking fleas on his head who talk about nonsense and are oblivious to everything that is happening to the appendixes at the end of the book filled with nonsense like how to make kinds of peanut butter sandwiches and play the pirate game, it is hilarious. The book is modeled after a textbook but is so stupid that anyone would like it. It may not sound appealing from this article but the way it is written is so unbelievably fantastic that you will surely enjoy it, besides I haven’t even started to tell you what happens in the story.

~ Michael McMaster, grade 8, Boardman Center Middle School

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