David Kirk's The Poky Little Puppy

"Little mouse, Biddle mouse out to explore, hunting for tidbits across the wide floor," I recited practically every night before bed. The picture book Little Mouse, Biddle Mouse by David Kirk, the author of the Miss Spider series, was my favorite at a kid. I had the whole book memorized at one point. Another favorite, The Poky Little Puppy, a Golden Book, taught me that puppies can only get desserts if they do not dig under fences unless they are super sneaky. Picture books, Golden Books, shifting my eyes across the page, pretending to read as my mother read the newspaper. In first and second grade, I read the Horrible Harry chapter books, comparable to series like Junie B. Jones, except I don't know anyone else who read Horrible Harry books.

It appeared to be a good movie with a nice cast that I would enjoy, so I thought it would be a good choice when I saw it was in in the school library. It turned out to be a fantastic book that I would recommend. The book was a dystopian society where a group of children were raised in boarding schools to donate their organs to the rest of society. I have read other books following the same premise, The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer and Unwind by Neal Shusterman, but Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go is less juvenile and more realism . The protagonist organ-donor teens do not fight the organ-donating lifestyle, and it only makes sense. This is how they were raised. They may question "Why them? " every now and then, but their society continues without an outbreak of rebellion. In scenes where they do come in contact with the outside world, they see it as an outsider, like they are looking through a window. Another aspect that makes the book more realistic is the relationships between everyone else and the donors and relationships between the youth donors. The outsiders and some of their school directors treat them not as much with disgust but with an awkwardness and