You Will Call Me DROG
Minneapolis: Carolrhoda Books, 2011. Second printing [stated]. Hardcover. Format is approximately 5.5 inches by 7.75 inches. [6], 281, [1] pages. Illustrations. Drog is hard to put down. This is a laugh-out-loud story about a sassy puppet and the boy who loved him. Unless Eleven-year-old Peter Parker can find a way to remove the sinister puppet that refuses to leave his hand, he will wind up in Military School of worse. But first, he must stand up for himself. Sue Cowing was born in Illinois and now lives and writes in Hawaii. She earned degrees in history from Knox College and Emory University, then studied Chinese and Japanese history at the University of Hawaii. After teaching history and Asian studies in Honolulu for sixteen years, she earned an M.F.A. in Writing (poetry) from Vermont College of Fine Arts and began writing full-time. Her poems for general audience have appeared in:Virginia Quarterly Review, Cream City Review, Wormwood Review, Bamboo Ridge, Chaminade Literary Review, Hawaii Review, Negative Capability, and in several anthologies. including Sister Stew and The Denney Poems. Around 1990, Sue began writing for children and now writes most often for them. Some of her stories, poems, and nonfiction articles have appeared in CRICKET and SPIDER magazines. The University of Hawaii Press published her Fire in the Sea: An Anthology of Poetry and Art in 1996. She has written two books for children: My Dog Has Flies: Poetry for Hawaii’s Kids and a debut novel, You Will Call Me Drog. Sue has received Ka Palapala Po‘okela Awards for Excellence from the Hawaii Publishers’ Association for Fire in the Sea and My Dog has Flies. Parker is a normal sixth grader—or he was normal before the puppet. It’s just an old hand puppet, sticking out of a garbage can, and even though Parker’s best friend says leave it, Parker brings the puppet home and tries it on. Or maybe it tries him on. “You will call me Drog!” the puppet commands once they’re alone. And now, no matter how hard Parker tries, he can’t get Drog off his hand. Drog is sarcastic, cruel, unpredictable, and loud—everything Parker isn’t. Worse yet, no one believes that Drog—not Parker—is the one saying the outrageous things that get Parker into trouble. Then Drog starts sharpening his snarky wit on the most fragile parts of Parker’s life—like his parents’ divorce. Parker’s shocked, but deep down he agrees with Drog a little. Perhaps Drog is saying things Parker wants to say after all. Maybe the only way to get rid of Drog is to truly listen to him. Condition: Very good / Very good.
Keywords: Puppets, Fiction, Supernatural, Self--Confidence, Interpersonal Relations, Divorce, Parents, Children's Literature, Peter Parker
ISBN: 9780761360766
[Book #82455]
Price: $40.00