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| The Dog at the Gate: How a Throwaway Dog Becomes Special | Hurricane Dog: A Tale of Betrayal, Redemption & Change | From Wild to Mild: A Dog in Two Worlds | |
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| Price | $15.00 | $15.00 | $15.00 |
| Page Count | 246 | 240 | 196 |
| Awards | Moonbeam Children's Book Award - Silver; CIPA EVVY Animals & Pets Third Place; CIPA EVVY Children's Story Books Third Place | First Place CIPA EVVY Award; Moonbeam Children's Book Award - Silver | 2020 Moonbeam Silver - Children's Pets/Animals Fiction; CIPA EVVY Pets/Animals/Nature Third Place; CIPA EVVY Middle Grade Fiction Third Place |
| Challenges | Coping with ADHD, making decisions, setting constructive goals for a life of contribution. | Prejudices against pit bull dogs, people of color; snap judgments that ultimately prove to be unsubstantiated and untrue. | Searching for your true nature is hard work and can be uncomfortable; finding your true nature is a natural part of growing up; being true to yourself is often met with others’ attempts to keep you under their own selfish control; |
| Messaging | Good decision making will be rewarded; goals must be set to be attained. | Bad decisions can backfire; faulty judgment blinds one to truth; forgiveness, flexibility, tolerance opens one to love; education is the key to accomplishing changes in the world; all children have the potential to contribute; | Growing up requires one’s own search for self. Discovering your true self takes time. |
| Lessons | Loyalty, courage, patience, tolerance, faithfulness, devotion. | Loyalty may result in self-sacrifice, but devotion, patience, and forgiveness can enrich everyone’s life; it is important to set goals at every stage of life; courage is key to navigate change; | Kindness can be found alongside cruelty; family can come in many forms; developing self-differentiation sometimes involves contradicting parents, authority figures, and peers; there are two sides (or more) of every story; |
| Discussion Guide Available? | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
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I am an animal lover and shed quite a few tears.
My sister-in-law gave me two of Sunny Weber's books for Christmas. If a person who adopts a dog cannot have them be "family" then they should not adopt. What happened to Gator and Magnolia was not their fault. I cried at the end when they found out the whole story.People who use dogs in puppy mills are sick. They let them go when they are not needed anymore. We adopted a little Yorkie who was 4 1/2 lbs. Utah went to Missouri to take those dogs. She had never been outside, stepped on grass, feed her, get her teeth cleaned or to knew love. We named Aubrey Anne. She was the sweetest little girls ever.
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People who use dogs in puppy mills are sick. They let them go when they are not needed anymore. We adopted a little Yorkie who was 4 1/2 lbs. Utah went to Missouri to take those dogs. She had never been outside, stepped on grass, feed her, get her teeth cleaned or to knew love. We named Aubrey Anne. She was the sweetest little girls ever.
I am an animal lover and shed quite a few tears.
Reviewed in the United States on July 26, 2023
My sister-in-law gave me two of Sunny Weber's books for Christmas. If a person who adopts a dog cannot have them be "family" then they should not adopt. What happened to Gator and Magnolia was not their fault. I cried at the end when they found out the whole story.Reviewed in the United States on July 26, 2023
People who use dogs in puppy mills are sick. They let them go when they are not needed anymore. We adopted a little Yorkie who was 4 1/2 lbs. Utah went to Missouri to take those dogs. She had never been outside, stepped on grass, feed her, get her teeth cleaned or to knew love. We named Aubrey Anne. She was the sweetest little girls ever.
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Reviewed in the United States on November 26, 2019
Thank you IRead and the author for a complimentary copy. I voluntarily reviewed this book, and all opinions expressed are my own.
Hurricane Dog
By: Sunny Weber
*REVIEW* ❤❤❤❤❤
I read this book with my ten year old son, and he has written his own review. I will first give my thoughts.
This is the second book I have read by Sunny Weber, and I have noticed underlying parallels that are important and relevant. Animal cruelty is a big problem, and pets are casually tossed aside like so much garbage. It seems like people forget animals are living beings with emotions and feelings. In this story, a dog, Gator, is abandoned by his owners following a hurricane in Louisiana. Told from Gator's perspective, the story is striking. How do animals feel when their caretakers go away, and never return? The circumstances are not typical in Gator's situation, but that does not make it less tragic. He is lost and resentful. Eventually, Gator and another dog are rescued, but this is not the end of hardship. Events bring bad and good into Gator's life, but he is a survivor. This is a touching inspiring story about love, loss, hope, perseverance and redemption. Well written and thoughtful, it is ideal for upper middle grade readers, and I highly recommend for individuals and classroom libraries.
*MY SON'S REVIEW* 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
Hurricane dog was an amazing read, and you should invest your time in it. Hurricane dog is about a dog who finds a smaller dog that's barely alive in an illegal puppy mill,but he feeds it to good health and, well, I can't say what happens next but later on their owner abandons them and sadly doesn't come back because he is told they are dead. I cannot say what happens next because it was ruin the story, but what I will say is that this book was just outstanding of that of middle school or elementary school and since I'm a in between those two , so that made this book even better. I'm excited to read the whole trilogy because these books are really good reads! Anyway I do recommend this book for almost all genres except midevil, space, and a few others. All in all, a great book.
Hurricane Dog
By: Sunny Weber
*REVIEW* ❤❤❤❤❤
I read this book with my ten year old son, and he has written his own review. I will first give my thoughts.
This is the second book I have read by Sunny Weber, and I have noticed underlying parallels that are important and relevant. Animal cruelty is a big problem, and pets are casually tossed aside like so much garbage. It seems like people forget animals are living beings with emotions and feelings. In this story, a dog, Gator, is abandoned by his owners following a hurricane in Louisiana. Told from Gator's perspective, the story is striking. How do animals feel when their caretakers go away, and never return? The circumstances are not typical in Gator's situation, but that does not make it less tragic. He is lost and resentful. Eventually, Gator and another dog are rescued, but this is not the end of hardship. Events bring bad and good into Gator's life, but he is a survivor. This is a touching inspiring story about love, loss, hope, perseverance and redemption. Well written and thoughtful, it is ideal for upper middle grade readers, and I highly recommend for individuals and classroom libraries.
*MY SON'S REVIEW* 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
Hurricane dog was an amazing read, and you should invest your time in it. Hurricane dog is about a dog who finds a smaller dog that's barely alive in an illegal puppy mill,but he feeds it to good health and, well, I can't say what happens next but later on their owner abandons them and sadly doesn't come back because he is told they are dead. I cannot say what happens next because it was ruin the story, but what I will say is that this book was just outstanding of that of middle school or elementary school and since I'm a in between those two , so that made this book even better. I'm excited to read the whole trilogy because these books are really good reads! Anyway I do recommend this book for almost all genres except midevil, space, and a few others. All in all, a great book.
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