Nobody understands Wallace Wallace. This reluctant school football hero has been suspended from the team for writing an unfavorable book report of ...
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Feb 02, 2008
Yael
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I'd give it four stars, but it really irks me how the main character doesn't seem to actually learn anything, aside from the fact that his football friends aren't necessarily the nicest people. I mean, I like the premise of the book (boy hates book, writes scathing review, teacher is angry), but the fact is that the teacher had a point. If he had written an intelligent review, where he had explained why he didn't like the book, the teacher would have been fine. It was his simple dismissal of the
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Jun 03, 2010
Erica
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This book is really good and really funny! It is about a boy named Wallice Wallice (or how ever you spell his name)who never tells a lie. Never! He gets detention for refusing to do a book report. For his detention he gets suspended from football to help with the school play which so happens to be doing the
book that he refused to do a report on. But things go bad and everyone thinks its Wallice doing them. Will the real culprit be cougt? Will Wallice get back on the team? Will he ever wri More...
book that he refused to do a report on. But things go bad and everyone thinks its Wallice doing them. Will the real culprit be cougt? Will Wallice get back on the team? Will he ever wri More...
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Feb 02, 2012
Chy
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Wallace Wallace never lies. And he’s tired of books about dogs because the dog always bites it. Then his refusal to agree that Old Shep, My Pal is a masterpiece of literature, his teacher gives him detention. That lands him in the same place where the Junior High drama kids are gearing up for their rendition of that story, adapted for the stage by that same teacher.
The fact that everyone in town considers Wallace a football hero for a single stroke of luck the season before puts t More...
The fact that everyone in town considers Wallace a football hero for a single stroke of luck the season before puts t More...
Oct 02, 2011
Bao
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No More Dead dogs is about a boy named Wallace Wallace. He hated that he had to write a review about a book that die at the end. He refused so he had an argued with Mr. Fogelman and he got himself a detention. In other hand, he had a football game. This detention also means that he will not be able to play or practice with the football team. The year before he was a bench-warmer that finally got to play in the championship game. In that game there was a fumble that he fell on for the winnig touc
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Apr 11, 2011
Ben
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No More Dead dogs is about a boy named Wallace Wallace. He hates that he has to write a review about a book where the dog dies in the end. He argues to the teacher that there are just too many books that end with the dog dieing in the end. He refuses to write something good about the book 'Old Shep, My Pal'. Therefore he gets a detention with Mr. Fogelman. This detention also means that he will not be able to play or practice with the football team. The year before he was a bench-warmer that f
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Mar 09, 2011
Drew
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Rating: ***
I don’t know that much about Gordon Korman, the author of No More Dead Dogs. I think he did pretty well, but it was slow moving. I believe he could have made it more interesting by either making it have more action or making it shorter. This would mean it has less dead time. By “dead time” I mean the characters just babbling about random stuff.
I think the book was a little bit boring, but it had some interesting parts. I strongly disliked the fact that it change More...
I don’t know that much about Gordon Korman, the author of No More Dead Dogs. I think he did pretty well, but it was slow moving. I believe he could have made it more interesting by either making it have more action or making it shorter. This would mean it has less dead time. By “dead time” I mean the characters just babbling about random stuff.
I think the book was a little bit boring, but it had some interesting parts. I strongly disliked the fact that it change More...
Mar 08, 2011
Jake
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No More Dead Dogs By: Gordon Korman
Reviewed By: Jake Coleman
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I was very surprised about this book because when I picked it up it looked majorly boring. But as I read, I started to enjoy the book because of the way the author put in some humor and drama at the same time. This goes to show that you can’t judge a book by its cover. I could relate to Wallace because we are both goofy and play the same sport. I was very fortunate to be able to read No More Dead Dogs because it was More...
Reviewed By: Jake Coleman
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I was very surprised about this book because when I picked it up it looked majorly boring. But as I read, I started to enjoy the book because of the way the author put in some humor and drama at the same time. This goes to show that you can’t judge a book by its cover. I could relate to Wallace because we are both goofy and play the same sport. I was very fortunate to be able to read No More Dead Dogs because it was More...
Oct 10, 2010
Nick
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Realistic Fiction
When middle school football star Walllace Wallace is taken off the team because of detention for not writing a true review of a book for English, he ends up having to sit in a boring school play about the book while his English teacher directs it. As it turns out. Wallace has some great ideas for the play. He becomes the director and makes the best play ever known in middle schools. But someone is trying to sabotage the play before opening night, and he, or she, must More...
When middle school football star Walllace Wallace is taken off the team because of detention for not writing a true review of a book for English, he ends up having to sit in a boring school play about the book while his English teacher directs it. As it turns out. Wallace has some great ideas for the play. He becomes the director and makes the best play ever known in middle schools. But someone is trying to sabotage the play before opening night, and he, or she, must More...
Aug 29, 2010
Kerry
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This review is based on the Playaway version, c2007.
Wallace Wallace is an eighth-grade football hero who, under no circumstances, will tell a lie. His stubborn streak is best described by a teacher: “the parking lot is paved with the bones of teachers who were waiting for Wallace Wallace to see things their way.” He lands in detention when he refuses to write a positive review of a book that his English teacher, Mr. Fogelman, loves. Until he rewrites the review in a more positive lig More...
Wallace Wallace is an eighth-grade football hero who, under no circumstances, will tell a lie. His stubborn streak is best described by a teacher: “the parking lot is paved with the bones of teachers who were waiting for Wallace Wallace to see things their way.” He lands in detention when he refuses to write a positive review of a book that his English teacher, Mr. Fogelman, loves. Until he rewrites the review in a more positive lig More...
Feb 27, 2010
Katie
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Jan 10, 2010
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Dec 30, 2009
Sarah-Greenbeanteenqueen
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This was my favorite book I read for children's lit! Gordon Korman has a great sense of humor and even though some of the plot may be a little unrealistic, it's still a lot of fun and the characters are relateable. Told in multiple view points from various characters, Gordon Korman combines sports, theater and a little bit of mystery into a must read book for midle schoolers. I think readers will get a kick out of the story and there's something for everyone.
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Dec 28, 2009
Ladon
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This book is about a boy named Wallace Wallace who is on his schools football team and is the star of the team. he gets kicked off the football team because he didnt do a good book report for a book called old shep my pal. He has to work with the crew of the play old shep my pal until he writes a book report that his teacher Mr. Fogelman likes. as he is working with the play he noticed that he makes the play more exciting and soon he doesnt even want to join the football team anymore.
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Dec 07, 2009
Kasha
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This book was not bad. It is a 4.5 on the AR reading scale. I probably won't recommend it to either of my kids right now just because it is very preteen. This would probably be a good book for a kid to read in middle school...except that the AR level is so low that the student probably wouldn't find any literary challenge if they read it at that age. I think the kind of student that would enjoy this book would have to be prematurely interested in girls or boys, and that doesn't describe eith
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Nov 01, 2009
Aaron
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A school is doing a play about a book called Old Shep, My Pal. Wallace Wallace, a football star writes a book report saying how much he hats the book, and is sent to detention. There he is forced to make the play with the drama club. They let the dog in the play live, which becomes a disaster when the someone blows up the toy dog used in the play. Everyone thinks it is Wallace, but it really is not. Everyone believes him at the end though.
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Apr 23, 2009
Coco
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This book was the answer to a dog-lover's prayers. As a child, my parents banned me from watching Lassie, even though the dog always survived. I still started sobbing, long before the end rolled around. Books like Old Yeller were my undoing in school and now, as a parent, I've had to struggle with my son's issues over animal's pain and suffering in the name of award-winning books. Well this book comes to the rescue. My sister and her teacher friend tracked it down for us and my son and I thoro
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Dec 13, 2008
Steven
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Wallace Wallace is a young football star at his school. He hated novels that had dogs in them because he knew that the dog always had to die. So he thought he didn't really need to read any novels with dogs in them because he kew he would know what would happen. One day he was assigned to make a review on a novel and the novel was about a dog that died sadly. He insulted the book in most of the review. So the teacher put him in detention in a place he hated, the after school drama club. He ha
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Oct 26, 2011
Antof9
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I really, really, really loved this book. I recently complained about dog books on Twitter -- I really hate them because the dog ALWAYS dies in them -- and a friend suggested this one. Why? Because
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"Don't be ridiculous," the teacher snapped. "How?"
I shrugged. "Because the dog always dies. Go to the library and pick out a book with an a
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Nov 28, 2010
Michele
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Interest level: 5th +
Reading level: medium
Genre: mystery, humor, football, acting, friendship, dogs
Here's another funny book by Gordon Korman, author of the "Son of the Mob Series" (see review in this blog).
Wallace Wallace is suspended from his football team when he refuses to rewrite a book report on "Old Shep, My Pal", a book he absolutely hated from cover to cover. To make matters worse, Wallace's English teacher sends Wallace to the rehearsa More...
Reading level: medium
Genre: mystery, humor, football, acting, friendship, dogs
Here's another funny book by Gordon Korman, author of the "Son of the Mob Series" (see review in this blog).
Wallace Wallace is suspended from his football team when he refuses to rewrite a book report on "Old Shep, My Pal", a book he absolutely hated from cover to cover. To make matters worse, Wallace's English teacher sends Wallace to the rehearsa More...
May 29, 2011
Karen
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"...the dog always dies." Go to the library and pick out a book with an award sticker and a dog on the cover. Trust me, that dog is going down." - Wallace Wallace
Wallace Wallace is absolutely, positively one hundred per cent committed to telling the truth. All the time. He won't tell you 'you look nice' if he doesn't think you do. He won't let people call him a football hero, because it was pure luck that he fell on a fumble to win the county championship game last More...
Oct 23, 2010
Mary
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In 8th grade, Wallace Wallace the local football hero has to write a book report on Old Shep, My Pal, another of those stories where the dog dies. Unfortunately, Wallace Wallace has never told a lie and refuses to tell a lie, but he hates the book, so his book review doesn’t please his English teacher, who likes the book so much he’s turning it into a play and is directing it for the middle school drama production. Wallace refuses to write a positive review of the book, and his English teacher a
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Jan 30, 2009
Nicole Catherine
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Every now and then you'll come upon a book that makes you say, "Of COURSE! That is SO TRUE!! Why didn't anyone think of this before??" Well, I'm telling you now: No More Dead Dogs by Gordon Korman is most definitely one of those books.
We've all had to read that classic novel in elementary school: poor lonely little boy, he has a hard life, but oh lookie! there's a stray dog, now poor-lonely-little-boy has a friend! But guess what happens at the end of the book? Does More...
We've all had to read that classic novel in elementary school: poor lonely little boy, he has a hard life, but oh lookie! there's a stray dog, now poor-lonely-little-boy has a friend! But guess what happens at the end of the book? Does More...
Mar 13, 2009
Erica
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Another Battle of the Books title...
In this one, a young man with the unfortunate double moniker of Wallace Wallace, bearing the burden of always telling the truth, gets into trouble with his English teacher when he refuses to write a favorable review of Old Shep, My Pal. His beef with the book? The dog dies in the end -- something he's found happens with every book about a dog that's won an award.
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In this one, a young man with the unfortunate double moniker of Wallace Wallace, bearing the burden of always telling the truth, gets into trouble with his English teacher when he refuses to write a favorable review of Old Shep, My Pal. His beef with the book? The dog dies in the end -- something he's found happens with every book about a dog that's won an award.
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Sep 11, 2011
Jennifer
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Wallace Wallace, accidental football hero, is on detention because his teacher doesn't like his review of "Old Shep, My Pal." Detention happens to take place during play rehearsals for a play based on the very same book, because the teacher is also the director of the play. Wallace Wallace, who cannot tell a lie, starts making suggestions to improve the play. Meanwhile, someone is trying to sabotage the play, and a lot of people think it's Wallace Wallace.
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Dec 13, 2010
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Jun 09, 2011
Margaret Boling
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6/8/11 ** Day 12 Book 14 ** Totally not what I expected - this book underscores the reasons why it's better to have actually read the books one is trying to book talk in class!
Wallace Wallace is stubborn and absolutely believes in the truth, even when it hurts. His English teacher wants him to write a review of a "classic" (though imaginary) book called Old Shep, My Pal, in which the dog, of course, dies. Wallace won't say he loved the book, the teacher won't rest until W More...
Wallace Wallace is stubborn and absolutely believes in the truth, even when it hurts. His English teacher wants him to write a review of a "classic" (though imaginary) book called Old Shep, My Pal, in which the dog, of course, dies. Wallace won't say he loved the book, the teacher won't rest until W More...
Dec 22, 2010
Gatorgal21
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I don't care if you you're thirteen, twenty six, or fifty-five, I think you will love No More Dead Dogs. Maybe it's just me, but personally I consider one of the most hysterical books I've read. Gordon Korman has created masterpeice. And it doesn't matter if it is kind of short, and a bit on the fluffy side, it reminds you that not all books have to have epic battles, emotional death scenes or deeply tragic decisions that have to be made. Sometimes, it's really nice to just relax and laugh the h
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Dec 24, 2008
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Apr 03, 2010
Melanie
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While not as painful as "Son of the Mob", "No More Dead Dogs" is far from literary greatness. It is hard to believe this isn't the first story created by an aspiring writer penned during lunch and study hall. The characters are very flat, which fits in perfectly with the predictable story.
Wallace Wallace (I'm not making that up) had a lying father, so he swore to never lie. And while he never lies, his version of truth is more like Simon Cowell's blunt honesty than resu More...
Wallace Wallace (I'm not making that up) had a lying father, so he swore to never lie. And while he never lies, his version of truth is more like Simon Cowell's blunt honesty than resu More...
Jul 05, 2010
Erin
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I enjoyed this humorous tale about a jock turned unwilling thespian. What intrigued me was the unwillingness of the English teacher to accept a bad review of the assigned book. The characters are a touch plastic, or two-dimensional, but the odd humor and the little mystery of who is sabotaging the school play helps to make the plot exciting to follow.
Kids who enjoy humor, who have a difficult time writing book reports, or who just enjoy realistic fiction might get into this story. Kids More...
Kids who enjoy humor, who have a difficult time writing book reports, or who just enjoy realistic fiction might get into this story. Kids More...
