The Dog in the Freezer : Three Novellas

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Summary: Three, amusing, but short stories.
Review: "The Dog in the Freezer" is really three books in one. Each story involves dogs, but each story is unique as it can be. The main human character is always a boy, and he always has a good friend who is a girl. The first one is about a dog, Einstein who becomes his boy, Gregory for a day to go through the day of the big basketball game. This story is narrated by Einstein himself, and it came across to me as very direct. It was probably because it was from the dog's point of view, and to dogs, life is simple. The second story is about a boy, Lucas who must spend the summer with his uncle Jerry against his will. Jerry seems to care about Lucas, but he more or less gives him a free reign. He meets this girl Glori who juggles serveral jobs involving dogs. He gets a dog to impress her, and he has Michael(she-dog) go through her training school. Lucas and Michael form a bond and Michael even helps Glori in a nasty situation involving her and her ex-boyfriend. The final story about which the book is titled for, involves a boy named Jake who finally gets the paper route he wants. In one apartment he has to collect from there is a nasty dog dubbed "Big Boy," who dies shortly after he bit Jake in the leg. Jake pities him and sets out to find him a final resting place, even thought there is no good place to bury a dog in New York City. All in all the stories were just so-so. They were not bad stories at all, but nothing stuck out to make it excellent, or have an effect on me, though I enjoyed the book. (I have never owned a dog, so that could be half of it) I finished the book quickly, which to me is a sign of intrest. If a book is entertaining, I won't stop reading it, and I finished this book in about two and a half hours, so it did keep me interested.