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Fetching (2011)

by Kiera Stewart(Favorite Author)

3.7 of 5 Votes: 1

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English

genre

Middle Grade & Children's

publisher

Disney Hyperion

review 1: Fetchingby Keira StewartRealistic Fiction296 pagesFetching is a fictionous tale told from Olivia, an eighth grader at Hubert C. Frost Middle School. Olivia encounters many events inluding popular girls, new friendhips, and dogs. The teen lives with her crazy dog trainer, and grandmother Corny because her parents seperated. Olivia divides the many groups in middle school into categories according to the way they act, for example the toy breeds which are the populars. Even though Olivia is the underdog of school, maybe not for long. When she goes to a training session with Corny she thinks, "Maybe girls are like dogs. If you use the same strategies they'll be nicer or more well behaved." When Olivia starts to "train" one of the most popular girls in the school, Brynne thing... mores drastically changed. Oliva started to leave her friends to hang out with Brynne, but also Olivia's training was making Brynne's friends turn against her. Finally Olivia decides to tell Brynne she's been "training" her all this time and things turn from bad to worse. Brynne turns on Olivia and tells the whole school multiple mean rumors about her. In the end, Brynne and Olivia make up, and Olivia has come to realize the consequences of "training" girls.I both liked and disliked this novel for several reasons. First of all, some of the situations in Hubert C. Frost I could easily visualize or relate to. For example, when Olivia describes a lunch scene with her friends Delia, who wears her hair in front of her face, Phoebe wearing all black and assorted piercings, Mandy the braniac, Joey the lover of food, and Olivia, the very self conscious one. In addition, I liked that Keira Stewart made an analogy using dog training skills on people and seeing how they influenced, or changed the way students st Hubert C. Frost Middle School acted. One thing I didn't like about the book was I wanted to know more about the other "breeds" of dogs that were explained very lightly. I would like to know more about what characters were inside each group (working breed, sporters, non-sporters, herders, terriers, and hounds.) I didn't really understand why Olivia would have told Brynne after all they had been through strengthening their friendship that she "trained" her with dog skills, because I would have predicted that with Brynne's personality she would have hurt Olivia's feelings more after the fact. This was quite an interesting book!
review 2: As far as a middle school story, it was good although at 44, I'm not exactly the target audience, and I'm sure I don't even know what's good to a 12 year old. As a dog trainer though, this was all over the place. Sometimes they used positive dog training techniques and sometimes not at all. A bit confusing on the dog training. I wouldn't want someone using this book as a dog training guide but for a nasty 13 year old it's just fine. less

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