Old Yeller

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Summary: The best book i'll ever read
Review: I like Old Yeller so much I read it all the time. It made me feel sad,happy,mad, and weird.I think everone sould read it.I love dogs so I read books about dogs Old Yeller was the best one it's the #1 book I'll read.All of Gipson books are grate. They sould have somthing on him on this page like about his life when he die or were he's from .Old Yeller made me thing what it was like to have a dog back then.

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Summary: A very good book
Review: This book is a very good story about a dog that suddenly comes into the life of a young boy. Though the boy first rejects him, the dog remains loyal and becomes very close to the boy. Although the story ends tragicly it is avery good book for all ages and I would recommend it to anyone.

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Summary: A very good book
Review: This book is one of the best books ever written and one of my favorites. A very good story and a good book for a family to read together. Anybody who hasn't read this book has to read it. They will love it. This book is one that nobody can put down. I would recommend it to anyone, no matter what there interests are.

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Summary: A Wonderful Dog Story
Review: Travis has an old yellow-haired dog that just wandered into his life. The boy and the dog become very close companions, and Travis's Dad leaves on a cattle drive leaving the 14 year old boy in charge of affairs. First a near tragedy with an attacking bear, and then the terrifying disease that turns animals and humans into mad creatures, and Old Yeller proves that he is, above all, a wonderful and devoted friend! Fine story to read aloud or individuals.

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Summary: Make your kid cry
Review: Just this one time, it's ok to make your kid cry by getting him or her Old Yeller, the best tragedy ever written for youngsters.

This is the definitive "boy and his dog" story, about a 14 year old frontier boy named Travis and the yellow mutt which wanders into his life.

The story is told by Travis in an authentic voice that is sometimes heartbreaking in its simplicity and good-heartedness. When Travis's father leaves unavoidably, Travis becomes the man of the house, with burdens that modern readers will marvel over. Old Yeller helps Travis to get through a number of tough spots, including a battle between two mad bulls, a skirmish with wild hogs, and a bear attack. But when Travis hears about an onset of "hydrophobia" among the local wildlife, he can't be prepared for the toll that it will take on him and his family.

Modern readers of all ages can thrill in the stories of children living on the wild frontier. With the wildest frontier times a full century behind us, there's still something that resonates within everyone who cares to read about that exciting time in history. Gipson has captured that magic perfectly.

The Disney movie version, produced decades after this book, has not aged nearly as well as the original book has. Scenes that seem cheesy on screen are still powerful and immediate in the book (which was always better anyhow).

I highly recommend this captivating tale, along with the Little House on the Prairie Books and "The Day No Pigs Would Die," by Peck.


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Summary: Attention animal lovers!!! NICKNAC
Review: This classic is a real tear jerker. A boy ,on his way to man hood, is helped on his way by a stray dog. At first Travis [the boy mentioned before] dislikes old yeller because, well he is a trouble maker, and a theif. Old yeller wins Travis's heart by saving his family, Arliss [ brother] and his mother, from bears, wolves,mad cows, and even saves Travis from a bunch of nasty hogs looking to tear him apart. In the end old yeller couldn't ecscape the horrible plague of hydrophobia [ rapies] and Travis must take the lives of his family in his on hands, by killing old yeller.

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Summary: Saving Lives on the Texas Frontier
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This 1957 Newbery Honor book grabs the reader?s interest from the very start. Teenage boys on the Texas frontier grew up mighty fast?if they survived the dangers of wild animals, Indians, weather and geographic isolation. The Coates clan is facing several months of separation, for Papa will be away with the other men from the Salt Licks settlement on an 800-mile cattle drive to Kansas.

Fourteen-year-old Travis suddenly must assume the role of Man about the Cabin during his father?s prolonged absence. More than chores fall upon his young shoulders as he sacrifices play time for the good of the family. He begs Papa to buy him a horse of his own, but his wise father assures him that he needs dog even more. Travis learns the bitter truth of that statement several times over when the family adopts a yellow mongrel with his own means of survival.

Resentful of the thieving brute at first, Travis grudgingly admits that Old Yeller, as they call him, sure has is paws full saving their lives?when he?s not
up to some mischief himself. But soon the settlement will face its most serious threat with the plague of dreaded hydrophobia. How will Travis handle the peril of Rabies on his own? Gipson?s narrative is full of dialogue and fast-paced plotting, which includes occasional foreshadowing. A real page-turner which
explores the bond between a young man who discovers man?s best friend. This is a story of both physical and emotional survival--for kids of all ages.