Henshaw asks Leigh ten questions about himself. In sixth grade, Leigh is assigned to ask an author ten questions, and he writes to Mr. He starts writing letters to the author, Boyd Henshaw, telling him how much he likes the book and how he delivers a book report on it year after year.
Little Leigh Botts, sixth grade (about the age I was in 1984, too), has fallen in love with a book called Ways to Amuse a Dog. In lots of ways, its like reading the story of my life but obviously it isnt about me, and the poignancy of the story isnt just in my head, or it wouldnt have earned the recognition it did.
This story about a lonely boy, learning to live with his parents divorce, going to a new school where he has no friends, and making his first efforts as a writer, won the Newbery Medal in 1984–the year my parents split up. I should have read this book 20 years ago.
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