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Strider author: Beverly Cleary copyright date: 1991 pages: 179

The main characters in this story are Leigh,Barry and Geneva. Leigh lives in a batterd up cottage and likes to run and has a good personality. Barry likes to play sports like football and he likes to be funny. Geneva likes to run and jump over hurdles and has lots of energy all the time.

Leigh and his mom live in a battered up cottage. One cold day, Leigh is out for a walk on the beach. When he spots a dog on a step, he looks at the dogs sad face, and starts to walk home. He cant’ forget the dog's face. So when he gets home, he tells his mom about the dog. The next day, he goes to the beach and sees the dog in the same position that he was the last day. So he decides to take it home. He has to hide the dog from his landlord, Mrs. Brinkerhoff.
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Him and his friend Barry are going to share the dog. Leigh’s mom thinks it’s a bad idea because she thinks Leigh and Barry are going to fight over the dog. One day, when they are watching television, they see a food bowl for the dog. They decide to build one like it. When they build it, the dog is happy that they built it for him.

In the next month, Leigh gets sick and needs Barry to take care of there dog Strider. One day it’s raining when Leigh is home sick so Barry comes over to give the mail and strider to him. At the end of winter, Leigh tries out for track because his P.E. teacher sees him getting chased by a kid named Kevin. Leigh and Kevin try out for track, when Leigh is on the track, he sees a girl named Geneva. Geneva was trying out hurdles. Every time she would knock some down and set them back up, but she kept trying. Leigh goes to meet her and they become friends. Later in the week, they sign up to plant trees in the city park. First Leigh doesn't show up until an hour later. Geneva gets worried and is about to leave when Leigh shows up. Geneva is relieved that Leigh came. In the next month, there was a big track meet Leigh and Geneva are in it. I cant tell you the rest so you have to read the book to find out.

I would recommend this book to 4th, 5th and 6th graders. The genre of this book is realistic fiction.