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Don't Feed The Boy (2012)

by Irene Latham(Favorite Author)

3.76 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1596437553 (ISBN13: 9781596437555)

languge

English

genre

Middle Grade & Children's

publisher

Roaring Brook Press

review 1: Whit knows about the zoo because his life is the zoo. He lives at the zoo that his parents run and even though they love the zoo, he does not. He is homeschooled by a private tutor so he never leaves the zoo. When he's given a summer assignment to study a species in the zoo, he chooses a girl that frequents the zoo often. Bird Girl, he eventually learns, chooses to escape to the zoo when Whit is trying to escape from the zoo. The two become friends and learn that life is not perfect on either side of the fence.
review 2: Chapter Book/ Grade 5/6Whit a tween boy lives at a zoo in Alabama. Dispite his wild surroundings he feels like a caged animal due to being homeschooled, never meeting people his own age, and not being alowed to leave the zoo grounds. While... more doing a summer project to study an animal he chooses a girl, named Stella, that he sees everyday at the zoo. He soon learns that he isn't the only child stuck in a bad situation. Stella lives with her mother in a very dangerous domestic violence situation. Her father is a prescription drug addict and keeps a gun under his chair. Her older brother ran away to Atlanta to get away from the abuse. Stella teaches Whit what it is to be a friend and Whit teaches stella that there is good in the world. This poignant story is appropriate for independent reading of 5th and 6th graders. No real curriculumn tie-ins. less

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