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title:Double Dog Trouble author: Page McBrier pages:94 copyright date: 1986

Double Dog Trouble is about a boy named Oliver Moffitt. He was a very excited kid, especially today. Today was the day Oliver was getting a dog. Oliver was very curious. He asked questions like, "do you think it will be lonely without its brothers and sisters?" Oliver was an expert on pets, he had dozens of animal books and animal posters all over his room. Oliver was tall for his age and had short blond hair.

Double Dog Trouble is taken place at Olivers' house and the pet shop. Both of these locations are located on Cooper Street. I know this story was sometime during school. I know this because when he had something to do it was always after school. It was also hot because there were ice cream trucks with many kids riding bikes and eating ice cream.

Olivers' dream was finally coming true until his mom found a dog that she fell in love with from the start. Everything was great except for the fact the dog she fell in love with was not only the first dog but was a very small dog. Oliver wanted a big dog or as he calls it a "real dog." Oliver decides to become an, "animal expert." With this he makes his own business as a dog walker. His first patient took a long time to get, and turned out to be pretty bad.

I would absolutely recommend this book to fifth or sixth graders because it has hard words. I would also recommend this to dog lovers because it talks a lot about dogs. This book has funny scenes and friendly scenes. A funny scene is when Olivers' first patient gets into a sticky situation. He jumped into an ice cream truck and ended up with ice cream all over him.