Ghost Dog Secrets by Peg Kehret

Ghost Dog Secrets is written by Peg Kehret. I specifically picked this book because the understanding and descriptions are great. This is personally one of my favorite books knowing that they are trying to save someone. Rusty and his friend, Andrew attempt to save a dog that wasn’t treated properly by its owner. There was a house in a neighborhood that Rusty stumbled across and saw a dog that looked very skinny and badly treated. Rusty took pictures of the dog for evidence to prove the dog was poorly treated. Although Andrew's little sister found out and told her parents….

I have quite a good connection with this book because my family and I actually rescued our dog. My dog was in need of help when my mom and dad found her at an abandoned place near where my grandpa works. They then decided to surprise us with the dog around four weeks later as a present after we got home from a friend’s birthday party.

Review by-R0sey

 

The story, Ghost Dog Secrets, by Peg Kehret is about Rusty and his friend, Andrew, saving an abused dog. Every day Rusty feeds a skinny dog chained up with no shelter or food. His friend, Andrew, soon helps. After several days of feeding this dog they decided to take it home but try to hide it from his mother.  Wendy, (Andrews' little sister) is following him around and figured out that they have a dog, and she told on them. There had been a ghost dog trying to get Rusty to follow him. Eventually, Rusty followed him and encountered Ra’s mean owner, who was making terrible threats.

This book reminds of something going on in real life, because dog abuse does happen in real life. This book is fiction, but I think some parts are very realistic.

Review by Layla

Black Beauty, retold from the original by Anna Sewell

Black Beauty, retold from the original by Anna Sewell.  I think this book was sad because it was about this guy that abused Black Beauty, who was a horse.  And after that they gave Black Beauty to another person and then he treated him nice and sweet.  What I think is that people should stop abusing animals and it’s wrong that they think that it’s cool.  I connected with this book because it was really sad, interesting and it was amazing.  And yes, I would recommend this book. 

Reviewed by WereWolf Lover 82

Cowboy by Nate Crosby

It’s a graphic novel!  Cowboy is written and illustrated by Nate Crosby. The book is about a boy who is trying to save horses.  He is in a desert with a weapon that looks like a toy horse that is a gun. He is saving horses from people who are torturing them. He is a very hard working boy that cares about them and he is an undercover cop.  I think the book is trying to get people to help animals when they are in danger. I like how the boy helped horses and I like graphic novels because they have great pictures.  Hope you like it to!

Reviewed by football King #103

The Underneath by Kathi Appelt

In The Underneath by Kathi Appelt, Ranger is a bloodhound that was abused by a cruel man named Gar Face.  I don’t recommend this to fourth graders because it has cruelty to animals.  Some fifth and sixth graders might be able to read it.  A cat comes to the underneath and has kittens.  The momma cat was drowned by Gar Face.   A kitten was lost and the other cat is with Ranger.  One time I was reading it and pictured my pets in such a cruel place.  Did the stranded cat come home?  Was Ranger saved by the cats?  Find out in THE UNDERNEATH.

Reviewed by Magnet