Dog Years
Welcome 2 Bone Franklin Middle School, where every day lasts a week and every week lasts a month. U R trapped in Dog Years!
So writes Case Hill in Dog Years, his comic strip for the sixth-grade paper. And Case should know: this year is his first in a new school, and it seems as if it'll last forever. He's the new kid nobody knows. His dad's in jail. His mom's stressed out. And his little sister is, well, a little crazy.
And while the comic is winning him new friends, it's also getting him in a heap of trouble. Does sixth grade really last forever. . . or does it just feel that way?
"I drew all the cartoons for this book with wooden barbecue sticks," Sally Warner reveals. "It was so much fun -- you should try it! I used to be the class cartoonist when I was in school," she continues, "and sometimes it got me in trouble, too, like the time I was supposed to draw gigantic cartoons of every boy on the junior high football team as decorations for a banquet. . ."
Click here to check out Case's "Dog Years" cartoons!
Download printable "Dog Years" stationary!
Knopf Books for Young Readers
Cover art by Mark Buehner
"A delightful story of a sixth grader's introduction to middle school, this book gives realistic situations that middle school students encounter."
The Children's Newsletter Monthly
"Warner captures the difficulties of preteen life as the hero struggles with friendship, honesty, and acceptance in this humorous story."
School Library Journal
"Because Warner writes with such a light touch, she is able to deal with complex and difficult ethical issues without ever seeming depressing or moralistic, and she sketches her vivid characters with a remarkable economy of words. A particularly appealing book for children going through dog years of their own."
Bulletin for the Center of Children's Books