Children's Literature
- Justina Engebretson
Elizabeth Moon is learning that middle school can be a dog-eat-dog world ... a world where everyone knows who the runt of the litter is and who the top dog is ... a world that very much resembles the order of life amongst the dogs that occupy her mother's boarding kennel. Kids like Elizabeth, Freida, and Matthew know a thing or two about life as the runt, while kids like Maggie and Stewart seem to know the privileges of life as the top dog. Then, there are kids like Ethan who fall somewhere in between and are uncertain about their specific roles. In this middle reader, Baskin portrays the pecking order of middle school life from the poignantly honest perspective of several students whose lives are more intertwined than they realize.
