This is the poignant and hilarious story of Dylan Mint, a teenage boy with Tourette’s syndrome. Controversial yet full of compassion and warmth.
Brian Conaghan makes you travel every step of the way in Dylan’s shoes, laughing and crying – often at the same time – as Dylan faces the twists and turns of an unfair world with glorious optimism and wit, raising important questions of inclusion, marginalisation and neurodiversity with sensitivity and insight. This barnstorming debut was shortlisted for the prestigious Carnegie Medal, and Brian has gone on to write many stunning, award-winning novels for teens and younger readers, including the Costa-winning The Bombs that Brought Us Together.
Shortlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal 2015Hilariously touching and outrageously unforgettable: Mark Haddon's Christopher Boone meets Holden Caulfield on one *#@! of a journey. . .Dylan Mint has Tourette's. Being sixteen is hard enough, but Dylan's life is a constant battle to keep the bad stuff in - the swearing, the tics, the howling dog that seems to escape whenever he gets stressed... But a routine visit to the hospital changes everything. Overhearing a hushed conversation between the doctor and his mother, Dylan discovers that he's going to die next March. So he grants himself three parting wishes or 'Cool Things To Do Before I Cack It'. But as Dylan sets out to make his wishes come true, he discovers that nothing - and no-one - is quite as he had previously supposed.
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Shortlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal 2015Hilariously touching and outrageously unforgettable: Mark Haddon's Christopher Boone meets Holden Caulfield on one *#@! of a journey. . .Dylan Mint has Tourette's. Being sixteen is hard enough, but Dylan's life is a constant battle to keep the bad stuff in - the swearing, the tics, the howling dog that seems to escape whenever he gets stressed...
The LoveReading4Kids Editorial Team have read and reviewed When Mr Dog Bites and determined it is suitable for children aged 15-18 years old
When Mr Dog Bites features in the following genres: Recommended Children's eBooks, Recommendations, Featured Books for Young Adults, Funny, Children's and Young Adult Fiction, Children’s, Teenage and Educational, Gritty Reads
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When Mr Dog Bites was written by Brian Conaghan and published by Bloomsbury an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
When Mr Dog Bites has 371 pages
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