My book report on No mORE DEAD DOGS

Title-No More Dead Dogs
Author- Gordon Korman
Number of Pages- 180
Genre- Fiction
Voice- 3rd Person

Settings


Time: Present ( 20th Century)

1.I’m going to keep this ball right here in the office as a reminder of the 2000 team, not the only Giants who ever lost, but the only ones who tried to blame their troubles on anybody but themselves.

2. It was like I wasn’t part of this, but I was watching it on Tv.
Place: Bedford School

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Main Characters


Wallace Wallace-
Rachel Turner-
Trudi Davis-
Mr. Fogleman-











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Plot


1.Wallace decides to never lie because his dad lied to him so much.
2. In the middle of the football practice, Coach Wrigly informs Wallace that he has to go to detention because of a bad book review.
3.Over the next couple of days Mr. Fogleman wants Wallace to write a good book review and he doesn’t, so Wallace has to stay in detention.
4.After a while, Wallace starts making decisions on the play, and Mr. Fogleman and Rachel Turner don’t like the comments but the rest of the cast does.
5.Wallace continues to make comments and he’s starting to act like a director.
6.Wallace starts to lose some of his football team mates as friends, and starts making new friends in the drama club.
7.The school newspaper starts lying on Wallace and that makes people believe bad things about Wallace which isn’t true.
8. Attacks on play rehearsals starts happening, and everyone thinks it was Wallace.
9.The school day starts and everybody likes it. Wallace also finds out who made the attacks on the play rehearsals and that person plans to have another one.
10. Wallace saves Old Shep My Pal( which was the school play) from a cherry bomb that would have blew up Old Shep, which is the main character of the play.

Major conflicts



Internal Conflict- The internal conflict involves Wallace Wallace. He was struggling to decide whether to go back to the football team or stay in the drama club and help with the play. It turns out that Wallace tells everybody he’s going to stay in the drama club at the prep rally,
and that’s how that conflict was resolved.

External Conflict- The external conflict involves Derek Turner. His goal was to mess up the play without getting in trouble. His obstacle was Wallace and Rick. In the end, Wallace knows that Derek made the attacks on the play, but Wallace takes the blame. Derek gets in trouble later on.