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  <title><![CDATA[The World According to Dog: Poems and Teen Voices (Bccb Blue Ribbon Nonfiction Book Award (Awards))]]></title>
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  <default-description>Funny, comforting, surprising, the words in this book explore our lives with dogs: dogs who befriend us; dogs who annoy, perplex, and accept us.  Teens speak for themselves in honest and forthright essays while Joyce Sidman's insightful poems further express the bond between dog and teen: how days of crowded hallways, pointless assignments, and blinding crushes are brought to balance by our dogs.  For as Doug Mindell's winning photographs confirm, at the end of the day, waiting at home, there is always Dogfull of hope and companionship.</default-description>
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  <original-publication-month type="integer">3</original-publication-month>
  <original-publication-year type="integer">2003</original-publication-year>
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      <name><![CDATA[Joyce Sidman]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[Amazing book.  The love that is shown from these teenagers regarding their dogs is just heart warming and genuine.  The writing is just so heartfelt and real it puts a smile on my face.  Since I have 3 dogs of my own when I read these poems my own dogs could fit into so many of these.  <br/>Student...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74453151">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Dog lovers, particularly middle-school-aged dog lovers, would enjoy this collection of poems &amp; narratives written by teens.  From a teacher's perspective, this has excellent examples of personal narratives at the grade 7/8 level, several of them effectively capturing the personality of their dog (wi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57722215">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Well, I wouldn't call myself a dog person by any stretch of the imagination but I do adore our dog. She inspired me to pick up this book off the library shelf and I found several poems in it that I ended up sending to a dear friend of mine who really is a dog person!]]></body>
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