Status
Available
Local notes
PB Fle
Collection
Genres
Publication
Dell Books (1993), 144 pages
Description
The adventures of twelve-year-old Jake and Jim Ugly, his father's part-mongrel, part-wolf dog, as they travel through the Old West trying to find out what really happened to Jake's actor father.
Awards
Nebraska Golden Sower Award (Nominee — 1994)
Texas Bluebonnet Award (Nominee — 1995)
Wyoming Indian Paintbrush Award (Nominee — 1995)
Young Hoosier Book Award (Nominee — Intermediate — 1995)
Massachusetts Children's Book Award (Nominee — 1996)
Sequoyah Book Award (Nominee — Children's — 1995)
Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award (Nominee — 1995)
Charlie May Simon Children's Book Award (Nominee — 1995)
Buckeye Children's & Teen Book Award (Nominee — Grades 3-5 — 1995)
William Allen White Children's Book Award (Nominee — 1994-1995)
Nutmeg Book Award (Nominee — Intermediate — 1995)
Mark Twain Readers Award (Nominee)
Sunshine State Young Reader's Award (Nominee — 1994)
California Young Reader Medal (Nominee — 1995)
Black-Eyed Susan Book Award (Nominee — Grades 4-6 — 1996)
Maud Hart Lovelace Award (Nominee — 1996)
NCTE Adventuring with Books: A Booklist for Pre-K—Grade 6 (10th Edition: 1988-1992)
Notable Children's Book (1993)
Language
Original publication date
2003
Physical description
144 p.; 7.6 inches
User reviews
LibraryThing member jjmcgaffey
Eh. Mildly interesting story, with a huge helping of coincidences to make it happen. The boy-and-his-dog bits aren't bad, but Jim Ugly provides some of the coincidences - magic tracking nose can find anyone anywhere. And the villain (at least, the visible one) is amazingly stupid - if he'd changed
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his pants he'd probably have had better luck following people around. Highly convoluted plot that doesn't make a lot of sense...the ending is amusing, though. Not bad, not great, worth reading once. Show Less
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Pages
144