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Sunday, May 17, 2015

Mountain Dog by Margarita Engle

When his mother is sent to jail in Los Angeles, eleven-year-old Tony goes to live with his forest ranger great-uncle in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, where Tony experiences unconditional love for the first time through his friendship with a rescue dog.

42 comments:

  1. ***Good! Tony gets sent to live with his great uncle,when his mom goes to prison for running a pit-bull fighting ring. When he moves in with his uncle, Tony meets Gabe, a search and rescue dog. He gets to experience a true bond with a dog for the first time. How does Gabe help Tony throughout the book?

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  2. *****amazing a boy gets to his uncles house because his mom went to jail for owning a dog fighting comp place and he moved in with his uncle he loved the dog and I remember a pic from the book that had him and that dog sitting on a tree trunk

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  3. ***good!Tony lives with his great uncle after his mom is sent to jail.Tony meets Gabe a rescue dog.How does Gabe help Tony.

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  4. *****amazing
    When Tony has to live with his uncle he meets his uncle's dog Gabe. When things happen, Gabe is there for Tony. I like the book because it is in poetry form but is a real story. I think others should read it is a GREAT book.

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  5. ****good the cool thing was that the book was poetry the dog has ha person name gabe i like to read about dog thats why i think this is a good book

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  6. ******amazing
    when tony goes to see his uncle and he meets his uncles dog name gabe.
    gade is thare for hem.i like the book becauseits a poetry.
    i think people should read this boook its AMAZING book

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  7. ***good Tony has to live with his uncle after his mother goes to jail for doing something bad. that made me sad because his mother was gone. It made me happy when he met Gabe. He had someone to love. I love books about animals.

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  8. ***Great Tony has to live with uncle because mother went to prison for doing bad.the bad part was that ever time he went to go see his mother in prison she will always be good and the she will then start fighting and and all bad things.he had someone that he can love the without his mother messing it up and making them bad and that why the book was so great and amzing

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  9. *****Great
    Tony goes to see his uncle and meets the dog named Gabe. He loved Gabe. I like this book because it is in poetry form. I would recommend this magnificent book.

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  10. ****Good
    I love when Tony meets his uncle's dog Gabe, that they immediately become friends. It is sad that his mother had to go to jail. This book is also good because it is like poetry. Everyone should read this F A N T A S T I C book!!!

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  11. ****grate
    tone has to live with his uncle after his mother go,s to jail that made me sad because his mother was gone

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  12. ****Great when Tony had to stay with uncle beacause his mother got dogs and trained them to do bad thing and sell them to other people .it was awesome to meet gabe at the middle of the story and one that didn't have to bite or hurt him as bad like the other dogs.it was kind of sad because when he meet his mother in prison and have pincis and other stuff that makes him happy but then he wiil get a call and his mother is doing bad things again .this book is really good and you should read it

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  13. *****great
    i am sad for zane because his famley left him wine he was a baby with his gran mother and zane and bandet survivid in a adice for a really long time i feal so bad for zane and bandet but thay sevived the hurrican

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  14. ****Great I thought it was sad that Zane was abandoned as a baby. When I found out it was a poem book I just thought that I wouldn't like it but I did and it was amazing! When the hurricane struck and Zane and Bandit were fighting through it, it almost made me feel like I was in it sense I had gone through hurricane Ike as a baby with all of my family.

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  15. **Ok. Started out very slow. Still would recommand it. I liked how the setting was in the mountains.

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  16. ****Good
    I liked how it started off with a little about his mom even when she is in jail. I liked Gabe the dog a lot because of its nature. Tio was a great character as well he is calm and collected in almost any situation. I would recommend that you read this book if you like dogs and scenic areas (because this book gives you good mental images).

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  17. *****it was a great book i like when the uncle took him hiking and that they named him gabe

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  18. ********great i love this book because when his mother died he had to go to foster care and when he did some one picked him up he was a nice person they went to this cabin and when he was a sleep he cooked breakfest and he smelled that smell come from the upstairs so he got dressed and got down stairs he ate breakfest and then they took gabe on a walk they went on a hike then up the mountain then they went back home and took a nape because the long hike they went on then after that they ate dinner after the counsolar told him she dosen,t take no for a anser she takes yes you should read this book !!!!!!!!!!!!!

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  19. *****amazing!! I loved this book it was so easy to read because f the way the words were typed. I loved the part were the lost dog finds Tony and Gabe finds them. I also liked the part were they said the lost dog would be fine. I definitely would recommend this book.

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  20. Charlotte Smith/5th wilsonNovember 13, 2015 at 6:45 PM

    *****amazing
    I love this book so much. I think this book is great because there is a great bounding between tony the boy in the book and gade the mountain dog in the book. My favorite part inthe book is when tony gets Luz for a suprise. I wish they make a book 2 because i want to see how the wedding goes on with b.b and toi.After all this book was a AMAZING book.

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  21. *****Great
    I loved this book because it is kind of emotional. I also liked this book because it has chapters with Tony and chapters with Gabe. My favorite part is when Tony decides he wants to change his life.

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  22. ***** amazing I liked this book because it let Gabe and Luz a chance to talk and all the emotion

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  23. ***** I LOVE THIS BOOK because it was sad and Tony with Gabe was so cute.MY favorite part was when Tony gets lost and Gabe has to find him now that part was sad.If you like heart worming stoys you should read this book.

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  24. ****great ,good, awesome this book touched my heat when I was reading it believe it or not but my dad surprised me and my brother with a dog that night. I recommend this book to any one at any age .

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  25. ****I LOVE THIS BOOK it was sad and scary for Tony the boy because he had to live with deadly things and killing. And I love the dog Gabe . I like how he talks and can sense Tony emotions. I hope you check out this book at the library.

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  26. *******Great this is about a dog who's saves someone's life. Read more to fined out

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  27. Joshua A./ Mrs. DavisDecember 16, 2015 at 12:20 PM

    ***GREAT BOOK
    I liked this book because it was sad.It was sad because his mom was in jail.I was suprisded when I got in the book in the middle that tony could not swim and Gabe could.this was a really good book.

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  28. *** this is an alright I mean it is a good book but I am not in to sad but so thare is a boy named tony that has to live with his uncle cause his mom went to jail and he meets a dog named gabe and they have a great adventure if you are in to sad books I think this book tnis good for you

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  29. ** good
    this book was a very good book for kids and for people that love the mountains and I would let many kids watch it and of course read and when the dog turns sort of in to a help dog or like a service dog for people and is helping but in the mountains .

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  30. ***Alrightwell the book is good but at first i got a little bored of the book but each chapter got better each time.I liked that it was a choclate lab because i like some tipes of dogs like small and big dogs.I sometimes think that having a human name for a dog is kinda weird but i like that name.I felt sorry for tony that he had to move to a new school and with his uncle.

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  31. Nicholas moss davisJanuary 9, 2016 at 7:48 PM

    ***ok sad when mom went to jail it was a great adventure but sad I thought the dog was so great how he saved his life

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  32. Nicholas moss davisJanuary 9, 2016 at 7:50 PM

    ***ok sad when mom went to jail it was a great adventure but sad I thought the dog was so great how he saved his life

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  33. ***Great
    I liked the book because it is about this very injured dog. The dog gets injured in the leg and he dies . Read this book to find out more about Mountain dog.

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  34. this book was sad because the dog dies and he has been throw a lot also in the book some parts are boring

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  35. tony goes to live with his uncle after he's mom goes to jail it is sad when the dog die's

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  36. **** I loved it
    because it got me on out of my chair I loved reading it but it was really sad because the dog dies.Read this book to find out more.

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  37. ****Good i like how the dog goes to places and rides around he is almost like a person. He looks always happy. it was a easy book to read because there was little words on a page but it was still a great book. It also had very good illustrations i like that author

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  38. madilyn foster / davisonJanuary 27, 2016 at 8:55 AM

    ** This book dint rill have a lot of words on a page it look lick a poem not a book but the story line is vary good.

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  39. ***** this book is awesome its cool how he went from crazy bull dogs to nice rescue dogs and its sad how his mom does not even care about any thing and she thinks he a loser

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  40. I love this book so much, it had great description, well detailed pictures, and I love dogs. so this was a good book! it was a fast read, so I could get through it so quick! I am so happy that I read this book! And I loved how it looked like a poem! And the story line is very good. I recomined this book!

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  41. ***** Great
    I really like the setting because I like being around mountains and the woods. My favorite part was when they got him his own puppy. This was my favorite bluebonnet book so far. I recomend this book

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  42. ****GREAT
    Tony has to be sent with is great uncle because his mother was sent to jail and he meets a rescue dog Gabe and they create a special book and I would recommend this book to a freind

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